OPENED KNEE JOINT. 
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2\st, 5 A.M. —The animal had slept the greater part of the 
night, resting his nose in the manger; he was then eating tares, 
but he looked haggard. The pulse was 50, firm, strong, and re¬ 
gular ; the extremities warm, respiration easy. He passed with 
difficulty a little water, which was very high coloured : the faeces 
that had been voided during the night were very dry. I ordered 
a ball, consisting of aloes 3 j, tartarized antimony 3 ss, powdered 
digitalis 3 ss, bals. copaiba 3 ij, powdered linseed 3 vj, honey 
q. s., which was repeated at noon, and in the evening; gruel 
for drink. 
22dy 6 A.M. —He looked better; he had lain down during the 
night. The pulse was 40; the bowels open. He staled without dif¬ 
ficulty, and the urine was not high coloured. A little gruel was 
given every two hours, and half an hour’s exercise was ordered. 
23^/.—He looked lively; the bowels were regular; the pulse 
as yesterday. Having voided a little blood in the night, I 
ordered aloes f^iij, acetate of lead 3j, powdered opium 3 ss, pow¬ 
dered linseed honey q. s., made into two balls, one to be given 
at noon, and the other at night. 
24^A.—Quite well; pulse 38 ; the urine of its natural colour. 
On the following day he was put to work, and did not appear 
debilitated. Performed his daily labour (drawing coals to a lime 
kiln) for four months, when he was sold. 
Kemarks. —In treating the preceding case of Hsematuria, I 
took into consideration circumstances connected with the animal 
that a stranger could not have known, and which the owner 
would never have thought of communicating. He had had the 
horse about two months, and the animal, when bought, was ex¬ 
tremely low in condition. They had placed him in a very luxuri¬ 
ant pasture, where there was red and white clover in abundance, 
and almost every other grass that is rich in nutritive power. The 
horse being a ravenous feeder, consumed a great quantity of food, 
which being of a better quality than he had been accurstomed to, 
blood was formed faster than the system could deposit it in the 
shape of fat and muscle, and it made its exit from (I suppose) 
the weakest vessel. 
OPENED KNEE JOINT. 
A four-year old mare, nearly full-blood, was brought to me 
on the i2th of October, 1831, with a stream of blood issuing 
from among a heap of bandages surrounding the left knee. 
She had met with the injury when drawing a loaded cart up a 
