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ON HEPATITIS, TRACHEITIS, &C. 
no tonics unless debility is rapidly succeeding. And when you 
have fairly weathered the storm, and your patient seems to be 
well, still be cautious—consider the nature and the seat of the 
disease—the predisposition to returning inflammation for many a 
week, and let not the lungs be put upon. If the season will per¬ 
mit, let a two or three months’ run at grass succeed to your me¬ 
dical treatment; but if this is impracticable, put off the period of 
active work as long as you can persuade your employer to let it 
be delayed; and even after that, let the horse return as gradually 
as may be to his usual employment and food. 
ON HEPATITIS, TRACHEITIS, AND OBSCURE LAME¬ 
NESS OF THE HIND EXTREMITY. 
By Mr. W. C. Spooner, F.N., Blnndford, 
Some few weeks since I was sent for to examine a horse be¬ 
longing to a gentleman in this neighbourhood. I found that he 
had been first observed to be ill three or four days before I saw 
him, and had scarcely eaten any thing since. The owner, how¬ 
ever, considered that he had merely a cold, and had employed 
no treatment, with the exception of the abstraction of eight 
pounds of blood the day previous to the one I saw him. The 
horse was aged, but in high condition, and had been hunted about 
ten days previously. Symptoms : pulse seventy-five ; breathing 
rather accelerated ; extremities very cold; faeces not very hard, 
but rather slimy; conjunctival and buccal membranes injected and 
yellow. I found, on inquiry, that the horse had had a cough for 
several days, but which, for the last twenty-four hours, had not 
been so frequent. I immediately bled him to the amount of 151bs, 
and gave the following ball—aloes 3iv, hyd. submur. ^iss, pot. nit. 
3 iii, antim. tart, ^i, digital, pulv. 5!, and ordered a fever ball to 
be given every four hours, composed of the three latter ingre¬ 
dients, with the addition of a drachm of calomel twice a-day. 
I considered the disease to be hepatitis, accompanied with in¬ 
flammation of the larynx, and with this view I had a strong 
blister rubbed on the right side, and the throat and neck. My 
prognosis, however, was unfavourable, and I told the owner I 
had but little hope of a favourable termination. 
2d daij .—No better; pulse seventy-eight, and weaker than 
yesterday. Extremities exceedingly cold; faeces rather softened ; 
blister has not risen. Venesection five pounds; blood of a 
dark colour, some time coagulating, and the mass not firm in 
substance. Fever ball continued, with a drachm of calomel twice 
