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CASE OF LOW FEVEll, OR , 
its former listless habits, was purging, although not violently, 
and the faeces were exceedingly offensive. There had been this 
morning one decided shivering fit. I found the animal not much 
altered in appearance, but breathing somewhat more laboriously ; 
the mouth a little, but very little, hotter than usual; the extremi¬ 
ties comfortable; the membrane of the nose almost of its natural 
colour, or a little more glistening upward, but, in the angle at 
the bottom, a concentrated spot of injection, red, yet with a slight 
tendency to a dark shade, Pulse 60, a little sharp, but irregular. 
Six pounds of blood were taken away, and the digitalis ball 
given. Injections of gruel were thrown up, and a pail with 
gruel fastened to the manger, some of which the pony drank, 
but he refused all other food. 
\lth .— The digitalis has strangely done its duty. The pulse 
intermits at every second beat, and is full and inclined to hard¬ 
ness. The number would still be 60. The membrane of the 
nose redder, and the redness more diffused 5 the mouth hotter, 
but no more shivering. The pony listless, refusing now even 
his gruel and all other food. Continue the injections, horn with 
gruel, and give balls as the 11 th. Rowels in the chest and 
under the jaw r . 
18 tli .—Much the same, except that the pulse was curiously 
altered : it had risen to 72,but no thorough intermission, but alter¬ 
nate very hard and then small strokes, with a little irregularity. 
The purging was a little abated. The animal staggered ; but the 
membrane of the nose was decidedly red, and the mouth very 
hot. Bleed again four pounds. Balls as yesterday, with half a 
drachm each of gentian and chamomile; and clysters of gruel, 
and half an ounce of laudanum. Gruel as before. 
19th .—The horse worse in everyway. The pulse 90; the 
purging increased. I fancied that the horse began to look round 
at his flanks. Mouth hotter, nose more intensely red ; the rowels 
have not worked. Blister the sternum and sides, and give ball 
containing an ounce of the compound chalk powder with opium. 
20 //fc.—The blister has not risen. The pony stales with diffi¬ 
culty, and seems painfully but ineffectually to attempt to pass 
faeces. The pulse is now 108, the nose red and the mouth hot; 
the purging stopped: the animal now 7 decidedly looks at his sides; 
extremities comfortable—no cough, no nasal discharge, no shiver¬ 
ing. Bleed four pounds. Ihe blood seemed at first to separate 
from itself a little milky fluid, but when the coagulation was per¬ 
fect this w r as not seen, but the fibrine w as unusually great in quan¬ 
tity, torn with difficulty, and of a pinkish-white colour. Injections 
w ith gruel. The sphincter ani was so contracted, that the pipe was 
introduced with great difficulty, and the hand could not be pass- 
