548 . INFLUENZA WITH PLEURITIC AFFECTION. 
all somewhat mitigated. Continue the digitalis morning, noon, 
and night. 
25M.—The patient is evidently better. Continue the medicine. 
2Qth ,—Still improving ; but the bowels being rather confined, 
give two drachms of aloes with the first and last doses of medi¬ 
cine. The horse is now able to eat tolerably well, and drinks 
.—The patient has made rapid improvement; and the 
owner being anxious that he should go to the salt marsh, I con¬ 
sented that he should go in a week’s time. The horse is sadly 
reduced. He was taken up again in the beginning of September, 
perfectly well, and having regained his former condition. 
freely 
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Infiiienza connected with Pleuritic Affection. 
Mr. N-, a very old friend of mine, taking a trip across the 
Channel, permitted a young friend to use his black horse during 
his absence. The horse was ridden in the Park on August the 
13th, 1833, at a rather fast pace, and afterwards left in the cold. 
On his return to the stable, the ostler remarked that he did not 
look quite well; and he did not feed quite so well during the 
night. 
On the following day, the 14th, he did not appear sufficiently 
ill to justify the ostler in refusing to let the gentleman have him, 
and he was taken again to the Park; but the gentleman finding 
that he did not go pleasantly, soon brought him home. 
I saw him early in the afternoon : the pulse was 64; irre¬ 
gular ; the mouth hot; the membrane of the nose of a brown 
red colour ; the extremities warm ; the eyes dull. On being 
walked in the yard, there was an evident staggering in his gait. 
There was cough, but neither frequent nor sore. 
Treatment .—Abstract blood in a full stream until the pulse 
flutters ; about 12 lbs. were taken away. The horse then 
broke into a profuse perspiration, and shivered all over. He was 
ordered to be warmly clothed ; to be put into a loose box; and a 
mash only to be given him. A fever ball (digitalis, emetic tartar, 
and nitre) was administered. 
7 p.M. —It seemed as if the disease was knocked down at 
once: the pulse was 50, and soft; the brown tinge was gone 
from the nostril, but there was a little too much red injection ; 
the extremities were of their natural temperature ; and the ani¬ 
mal fed a little. Repeat fever ball with aloes 3ii. Give another 
mash and a very little hay. 
15///, 8 A.M. —Lay down in the night, and evidently improv- 
