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since I saw him last; extremities cold; blisters have acted but 
very slightly; repeat fomentations; rub in more blister over the 
sides; continue medicine. To have a little mashed malt and boiled 
corn to eat. 
I 5th, Two o'clock, P.M. —Ears warm ; extremities warm ; ap¬ 
petite a little improved; he has just dunged, which dung is very 
thickly coated with dry-looking mucus; blisters a little fuller. 
Respirations 23, and pulse at 74 per minute; pulse intermits a 
period of about three beats, every thirty-three or thirty-four beats. 
Heart’s action sometimes strong and rapid, then becomes slower, and 
the sound appears to almost die away; then, suddenly, it resumes 
its state of agitation, to again become faint. Respiratory murmur 
over the inferior half of the right lung completely gone; murmur 
over left lung much the same as at first. Continue medicine, 
fomentations, &c., as before. 
1 Qth, Six o'clock, P.M. —Respiratory murmur over the left side 
still maintains the same character it shewed at the first; murmur 
over the right side more obscure than yesterday It is now faint 
along the superior region, and from the lower part of the superior 
region to the bottom it is dead. Along the middle region 1 can 
now and then detect a sound somewhat resembling the cavernous 
rale; but it requires more hollowness of tone to make it complete; 
I can also distinctly hear a soft cracking sound, as though air was 
very feebly blown through thick mucus. Respirations2l per minute, 
and pulse 66, which is regular, but wiry ; the sounds of the heart 
still vary in their intensity, but not so much, by far, as yesterday. 
Ears warm—fore extremities moderately so. This morning the 
horse again had a severe sweating fit, which lasted about two 
hours; and at present the back, from the chine to the hips, is wet. 
This afternoon he laid him down for about an hour, and when down 
he was quiet: during the day he has dunged twice. Occasionally 
he paws the ground with the right fore foot. 
R Potass, nitratis. Jjss 
Antim. tart. 3v 
Camphorse., v . 3vj 
Ammoniac carb. 3 vj 
Opii pulv. 3iij 
To be divided into eight doses: one to be given every lour hours 
in six ounces of water and two ditto of spts. nitre. 
1 1th, Four o'clock, P.M. —Respirations 22^ per minute—pulse 62, 
jerking and feeble—respiratory murmur over the superior region of 
the right lung is now faint: the sound has a stifled character—it is 
as though the lung would permit air to enter it, but was prevented 
from pressure applied over its whole surface. Cavernous rale to- 
