CASE OF INFLUENZA. 
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an explanation. The Flemish horse is notoriously weakly. The 
state of plethora in which appearance almost necessitates it should 
be kept does not increase its strength, or give it any power to bear 
up against disease. Unless great care be exercised in the treat¬ 
ment, the life is almost as greatly perilled by medicine as it could 
be by neglect; for that reason, no depletion of any sort was prac¬ 
tised. The measures employed were designed to support and 
invigorate the body, calomel in mild doses being alone used to 
counteract the fever. Nevertheless the weakness was prolonged, 
and, of course, each day added to its severity. The apoplexy I 
attribute solely to the debility, which in this case certainly remained 
present after the fever had subsided for a longer period than it 
usually does in animals of harder breed and stronger constitutions. 
Had the horse been of an irritable disposition, or the persons who 
attended upon it likely to practise severity, it might have been 
thought that excitement, operating upon an enfeebled system, had 
produced the result: but the reverse was the case; and I can con¬ 
fidently assert that nothing calculated to alarm or provoke was ever 
resorted to by myself or others, neither were any symptoms 
remarked which could have indicated the condition of the brain. 
When I saw my patient only a few hours before its death, the 
pupil of the eye was not dilated, and the intelligence seemed to be 
in no degree obscured. The cerebellum was the part of the brain 
on which the effusion was found, but to the last the voluntary 
motions were preserved. The death, therefore, was immediate, 
nor can I conceive that any knowledge we possess could have pre¬ 
vented it. On that point, however, on a single case of the sort I 
may not speak positively; and, therefore, through the medium of 
your pages I venture to inquire whether any member of my pro¬ 
fession can throw light upon the subject; or whether we are to 
regard death from sanguineous apoplexy, when it does occur in the 
horse, as one of those possibilities which it is beyond the ability of 
science to anticipate ? 
I remain, Sir, 
Your obedient servant. 
16, Spring-street, Westbourne-terrace, 
July 10, 1849. 
HOVEN IN CATTLE. 
By Peter BouGHTON, V.S ., Hounslow. 
Sir,—The enclosed has been written for insertion in the “ Mark 
Lane Express ,” in the hope that, on many occasions, it may be the 
means of saving the lives of animals where medical assistance from 
