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SINGULAR RESPIRATORY ACTION, 
before took place after the fourth inspiration, now came regularly 
after the third : the conjunctiva was red, and its vessels injected ; 
the temperature of the body was natural, and the limbs not so 
stiff, 
I administered half a drachm of extract of digitalis in a bottle 
ofw'arm w'ater, with four ounces of orange-flow’er water; and, 
an hour afterwards, the same drink was repeated. 
Two hours after noon the respiration was freer, not so short, 
and the expiration was stronger and more prolonged. It was per¬ 
formed in the following manner ; one weak expiration, the next a 
little stronger, and the third stronger still, and more prolonged; 
then again the feeble expiration, and so on with perfect regularity. 
The expired air was not hotter than natural; occasionally the animal 
got up, stretched out its head, and raised its upper lip, as stallions 
frequently do. The urine flowed readily; the horse ate a little 
hay, and drank a moderate quantity of water whitened with 
flour. 
Evening:—the horse was in the same state, and the pulse forty 
in a minute. 
1 administered a drachm of extract of digitalis dissolved in a 
bottle of w'ann water; and an hour afterwards repeated the 
dose. 
Three emollient clysters were administered in the course of 
the day. 
22d A.M. —The horse ate and drank as usual, and appeared 
to be lively; the beats of the heart w'ere not ahvays felt on the 
dorso-costal region; they were not so violent, and did not cause 
so great a shock over the wEole frame : the pulse was fuller and 
harder, forty or forty-two in a minute ; the respiration was freer, 
and almost natural; and the inspirations about twenty in a 
minute. 
At noon I could scarcely feel the beating of the heart; the 
artery was full; the pulse strong, and forty in a minute; the 
respiration free and less accelerated. 
In the evening the horse was walked about for half an hour : 
she ate and drank moderately, and then laid down and appeared 
to be w ell. I made her rise, had her out of the stable, and walked 
her about: there was no stifthess of the limbs. I then placed my 
hand on the dorso-costal region, w^here we had felt the beatings of 
the heart; they were no longer perceptible, nor could I feel them 
on the left and inferior part of the thorax. The pulsations were 
about thirty-six in a minute, all the bad symptoms had disap¬ 
peared, and the animal seemed quite re-established. 
Four days afterwards she returned to her ordinary work, which 
she has continued to perfoi in ever since without seeming to be dis- 
