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BRONCHITIS ATTENDED WITH VOMITION. 
On the 31st of last May a bay cart mare, six years old, full of 
flesh, was brought to my infirmary by the owner, Mr. L- who 
resides near this town, affected with what I considered a severe 
attack of bronchitis; but the only symptom that he noticed or laid 
any stress upon was her drawing herself up as he termed it “ all 
of a heap;” that, in my opinion, arising from the great difficulty 
she experienced in the act of respiration, by the membrane lining 
the bronchial tubes being so thickened by inflammation then ex¬ 
isting as almost to prevent the requisite amount of pure atmospheric 
air to serve the purpose of supporting vitality. I could ascertain 
nothing particular respecting the history of the case prior to my 
seeing her, with the exception that she had not been to work for 
the last three or four days, and that she heaved. The symptoms 
that presented themselves to me were the following:—Animal very 
dull—countenance indicated pain—off her feed, though not an 
entire loss of appetite—pulse 73, and rather inclined to be full— 
breathing quick, painful, and by the membrane of the bronchi 
being so constricted, a whistling noise was occasioned—respired 
air hot—visible mucous membranes considerably injected—mouth 
and extremities hot—bowels constipated, and apparent attempts at 
vomition. I ought to have mentioned that, on auscultating the 
sides, I found that what little air did permeate the lungs had free 
egress and ingress; but, on the application of the ear to the anterior 
part of the chest, great obstruction existed to the passage of the 
air through the bronchial tubes. 
Treatment. —Y.S. to the extent of five quarts, when the pulse 
began slightly to falter. Gave her the following ball,—Aloes Barb, 
ext. 3 iij> antim. pot. tart. 3 j, pulv. digitalis 3 SS, potass, nit. 3 ij, 
and applied a strong stimulating liniment to the front of the 
chest and along the whole course of the trachea. Ordered her 
to be put into a loose box, and to have bran mashes and linseed 
tea diet. Having only a short distance to go, she was taken home, 
with directions that, if any of the unfavourable symptoms that I 
named should appear, to send for me immediately. 
In about a couple of hours after the mare got home I met one of 
the owner’s men coming for me, who said his master wished me to 
go directly, for the mare’s stomach would soon be outside her. I 
was there in the course of half an hour, and she vomited several 
times in my presence; indeed, to use the slang phrase, she was 
“as sick as a dog.” But what I am now about to relate will sur¬ 
prise you still more, viz., that the ejected masses consisting of 
green-meat mixed with a great quantity of mucus, passed entirely 
through the oral opening, and not through the nasal, as is usual 
when vomition does occur in the horse. This act, I think, was ac¬ 
celerated by the administration of the antim. pot. tart., and, as I 
