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CASE OF PURPURA HiEMORRHAGICA IN A 
COLT. 
By A. H. Santy, M.R.C.V.S., Market Deeping. 
The subject of the above disease was a two-year-old cart- 
colt, and the following is a detailed account of the symptoms 
presented. 
On Sunday, the 14th September, I was requested by 
Mr. Bullimore, of Deeping St. Nicholas, to attend a colt 
reported by him to be swollen all over. Arriving at 3 p.m., 
I found that the colt had been taken up from the field that 
morning, and was placed in a hovel. Mr. Bullimore stated 
that, since then, the swelling had increased very much. On 
the previous Thursday the animal was first observed to be 
not very well, and on Friday he was rather lame of one of the 
hind legs. On Saturday he was worse, and all this time no 
further notice was taken of him, except merely looking at him, 
as the person who went to the field thought he did not ail 
much. 
Symptoms noiv present .—Anxious and dejected countenance; 
partial sweats ; extremities warm ; breathing laboured ; pulse 
very feeble, and about 80 in the minute; bleeding from nos¬ 
trils : petechial spots on the Schneiderian, buccal, and con¬ 
junctival membranes; a large, diffused, soft swelling over the 
parotid gland on the near side, another on the near elbow, 
and another at the posterior part of sternum ; the hind legs 
are very much swollen, as high up as the thighs; the fore 
legs are not quite so much enlarged, but they are so much 
increased in size as to have lost all shape. Below the knees 
and hocks, when I passed my hands down, on withdrawing 
them they were covered with blood, and blood and serum 
could be seen oozing out of the skin. Not much appetite. 
Treatment .—I had the animal led into a loose box, which 
was effected with great difficulty. I then administered the 
following draught: 
Spt. Nit. iEth., ^iiss ; 
Sol. Aloes, ^iv; 
Ale, Oj. Misce. 
Three hours after I gave— 
5c Spt. Nit. jEth., ^iss; 
Liq. Amm., ^ss; 
Brandy, ^ij; 
Aquae, q. s. Misce. 
