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A CASE OF HEPATITIS. 
mouth dry ; respiration about 70; staring of the coat, with loss 
of appetite; cold extremities; yellowness of the eyes and con¬ 
junctival membranes ; great fatigue with the least exercise. I 
immediately abstracted 7 lbs. of blood, and gave him the follow¬ 
ing: R Alees siii; tartarized antimony 3j ; calomel 9ii; fl. of 
sulph. 3iv ; pulv. glycyrrh siii. Six hours afterwards I repeated this 
medicine, and in six hours after that it began to operate briskly. 
\^th .—Much better ; pulse 50 ; respiration about 56. Gave 
calomel, emetic tartar, opium, and digitalis, of each 3ss, glycyrrh 
pulv. siii, once a-day for four days. 
24//?.—The horse appeared perfectly well, and recovered his 
usual spirit, so that Mr. H. rode him as before for a week or 
ten days, when, having to go from home a few weeks, he 
sent the horse out to grass again. On Mr. H.’s return home, 
which was on the 8th of September, he sent for the horse to ride 
him, when he was found broken-winded; but appearing very 
healthy in every other respect, Mr. H. continued to ride him till 
the 29th, when he was found in the morning very bad. He 
sent the groom immediately for me. I found him in extreme 
pain, with marked anomalous symptoms of pleuritis and enteri¬ 
tis. I abstracted 10 lbs. of blood, and gave the following every 
four hours in bran-tea, with laxative injections often repeated: 
R Nitrated potash siii; supertartrate of potash 3 iv ; tartarized 
antimony 3j ; digitalis 3 j. 
By the 4th of October he was quite recovered, and Mr. H. 
rode him as before for about a week or twelve days ; when one 
of those wise descendants of Vulcan (properly termed black¬ 
smiths), with whom, and such like pretenders, this neighbour¬ 
hood is yet too much infested ; one of those persons who, like 
the rest of his enlightened brethren, knew the modus operand!’^ 
of the whole materia medica to a hair, told Mr. H., as a great 
secret, if he would give his horse one ounce of saltpetre at night, 
and the same quantity in the morning, it would certainly cure 
him of the broken wind ; and related to him several instances of 
horses having been cured of broken wind by him and his medi¬ 
cine (I believe he has cured many a one in the same way, by 
sending them to their long home, w'here they have no occasion 
for either broken or sound wind). Accordingly the nitre w^as 
given as he directed, night and morning. The night after I was 
sent for; Mr. H. told me what had been given; I informed 
him of the consequences likely to ensue, as the horse w^as suf¬ 
fering dreadfully under acute inflammation of the neck of the 
bladder, from the effects of the nitre ; accordingly, on the third 
day he died, notwithstanding every possible means were used to 
save him. He died in extreme suffering. 
