A CASE OF ANASARCA. 
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bringing it securely and ’permanenthf to press on the part, in 
cases of inguinal hernia; for we are free to confess, that we have 
been accustomed to consider this mode of treatment as very 
difficult if not impracticable.—E dit. 
A CASE OF ANASARCA FOLLOWING SEVERE 
CHEST AFFECTION, AND REMOVED BY THE 
SPARTIUM SCOPARIUM. 
By Mr. J. D. Harrison, F.*S., Lancaster. 
On the 20th October last, a bay horse, belonging to Mr. P., 
a commercial traveller from Leeds, arrived in this town. He 
was observed by the ostler to refuse his food, and had a slight 
short cough, but no farther notice was taken of him. 
215^.—Mr. P. drove him in his gig to a village five miles 
distant, and remarked that he did not go with his usual free¬ 
dom and spirit; and also that he coughed a little, and still 
refused his food. He returned to Lancaster in the evening. 
22c?.—As the horse still would not feed, the ostler bled him, 
and administered a diuretic ball. 
2^th. —Mr. P. started with him on his journey northwards; 
but had not got out of the town, when he found it useless to 
make any further attempt; he therefore turned again, and de¬ 
sired my assistance. Upon examination, it was very perceptible 
to me, that although at that time the lungs were not in as active a 
state of inflammation as they had previously been, yet they 
were sufficiently so to warrant me in the abstraction of blood, 
the pulse being 75 or 76, quick, weak, and small. A rowel was 
also introduced under the chest; and the intestines being rather 
confined, two drachms of aloes were administered. At night, 
the symptoms were much the same ; and I abstracted six pounds 
of blood, and gave two drachms of aloes. 
25^A.—Pulse from 70 to 72; breathing a little better ; intes¬ 
tines still confined; the aloes were repeated. Night: intes¬ 
tines slightly acted upon; pulse much as in the morning. 
2Gth. —Pulse 72; breathing as usual; intestines regular: ad¬ 
ministered camphorse Jss, pulv. digitalis pulv. potassae nit. 
^ss. Night: no perceptible alteration ; repeated the camphor, 
&c. 
27th. —Symptoms as on the foregoing day ; rowel suppurating 
well: gave the camphor, &c. in the morning, and again at night. 
