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the scab is adhering very firmly, much to my satisfaction. I 
requested that my patient’s diet should consist simply in a few 
boiled oats with some linseed twice daily. 
Tuesday the 11 th .—The horse has refused his food for the 
last twenty-one hours; his pulse is weak, small, and 42 in 
number; his ears and extremities are cold. The wound 
looks healthy, and the tumefaction is about the same ; but the 
eschar has dropped off, and synovia has been flowing since yes¬ 
terday. I now applied pledgets of cotton wool saturated with 
creosote, and between them interposed a powder composed of 
alum, myrrh, and ferr. sulph. The whole being secured with 
a bandage, no other treatment was adopted till the 15th, when 
the flow of synovia, though diminished somewhat, was not 
completely arrested. To-day the animal has had rigors for 
several hours, and the pulse is 56 and weak. He refuses 
any food, so that linseed and oatmeal gruel is administered in 
the form of draught twice a-day. Notwithstanding this, he 
is rapidly emaciating. 
I now determined on trying the effects of collodion, but could 
not to-day, inasmuch as I had none by me, nor was I provided 
with the agents by which some could have readily been made. 
Monday , 11th .—Having by this time been enabled to procure 
some collodion, I shaved the hair around the wound, where I 
then applied some of the solution, covering the parts, subse¬ 
quently, with a layer of cotton wool also partially saturated with 
collodion. The wool being made into fine layers, I covered the 
wound with four alternate layers of collodion and cotton wool, 
after which I covered the whole with a larger pledget of the 
latter, and fastened it with a bandage; the horse was kept thus 
for a week, being fed on linseed and oatmeal gruel. During 
this period the animal’s appetite was in no way improved; and on 
the 22d I removed the bandage, and found the cotton wool still 
adherent, and the discharge arrested; I therefore did not disturb 
the apparatus, but replaced the bandage as before. The horse 
is in a most emaciated condition, his pulse being only 36 in 
number, but excessively weak, so as to be scarcely perceptible 
at the jaw. 
Thursday,21th .—The horse’s appetite is a little improved; 
his pulse is 36. The bandage being removed, the collodion 
dressing came away, exposing a beautifully healed wound. The 
surrounding parts are enlarged, indurated, and painful. 
Friday , Dec. 5th .— The animal’s health, as well as the local 
enlargement, having remained in statu quo until now, I decided 
on applying a strong blister of the oleum lyttae to the whole tume¬ 
fied part. For two days after this much pain was evinced, and 
the appetite was totally suspended. 
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