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SPASMODIC ACTION OF THE DIAPHRAGM. 
215^, 7, A.M.—The bowels not yet opened. Animal easier; 
but pulse 70, and full. Abstracted five pounds of blood, when 
the pulse began to falter. 
7 p. M.—Physic operating. Horn with gruel and linseed 
tea alternately. 
22d .—Physic still operating. Pulse 58, and softer. Still 
eats nothing. Breath yet somewhat foetid. Give of chloride of 
soda and powdered gum three drachms each, in gruel. 
7 p. M.— Still purging. Has eaten a little green clover. 
Breath no longer foetid, but the Schneiderian membrane begins 
to be highly injected, although the pulse has sunk to 50. Give 
three drachms of powdered gum, and half a drachm of emetic 
tartar. Urine still evacuated with pain. 
23^?.—Evacuates his urine in larger quantities, and with com¬ 
parative ease. Still slightly purging. Pulse 44. Give pow¬ 
dered gum, three drachms, and powdered gentian, half a 
drachm. 
24M.—Feeds well. Does not flinch when pressed on the 
loins. Bovvels still relaxed. 
2bth .—Pulse healthy; and all other symptoms favourable. 
21th .—Not feeding so well, but no return of the former symp¬ 
toms. Bowels regular. Pulse 36. Give three drachms of pow¬ 
dered gum, and one of gentian, and remove some of the clothing, 
which had hitherto been warm, over the loins. 
I saw the pony about twelve days afterwards. His general health 
seemed to be perfectly re-established, but he walked as if there 
was a kind of luxation of the hip-joint at every step. 
Dec. 13M.—I have seen him again. He is perfectly sound, 
and as fat and fresh as ever. 
CASES OF SPASMODIC ACTION OF THE 
DIAPHRAGM. 
By Mr. S. Brown, F.S., Melton Mowbray. 
On the night of the 2d of August, 1830, I was called up to 
attend a grey four-year-old mare, four miles from hence, which 
had been driven in a gig a distance of thirty-five miles during 
the day. The messenger informed me that the mare was ill with 
the colic, and that he had taken a gallon of blood from her, and 
put an onion in her barren, after which she staled, but she was 
not relieved by it. I put up a laxative mixture, composed of 
mass, cathar. 5iv, dissolved in boiling water; ol. lini Ibj, and liq. 
potassm Jii; and accompanied him back. On my arrival the 
