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out and sound on Tuesday night, and lame, with great pain 
in the off hind leg, the next morning. The owner bled her, 
and the morning after, I found her with her leg considerably 
swelled and great pain in it. The saphena was very large, 
the inguinal gland tumefied and painful. The usual catching 
of the leg was present, also an unwillingness to let the foot 
touch the ground, totally distinct from that arising from pain 
in the foot. The only apparent lesion, a cracked heel; a 
grave amount of irritative fever present; pulse 108, hard; 
breathing irregular; skin, during exacerbations, hot and dry ; 
during intermission, covered with perspiration. 
V. S., q. s. Inserted a seton in the chest, (too far away to 
do any good, I think,) Aloes in solution 3 iv, loose hay, mash, 
fomentation, &c. 
The swelling increased slightly the next day, and that of 
the glands became more diffuse. Not to trouble you with 
tiresome particulars, the inflammatory action went on to one 
of its high grades—suppuration. Small ulcers broke out in 
the course of the absorbent vessels, distant from each other 
about half a foot, one after another, beginning at the foot. 
The glands in the groin escaped the suppuration, and the 
wounds healed in a short time, but left a thickened limb to 
a slight extent. 
The fatal case I attended on Dec. 2, 1849, up to the 5th, 
when the patient was recovering rapidly. I was requested (on 
the score of expense, I suppose,) to discontinue my attendance. 
I was sent for again on the 7th, at night, in a great hurry, 
and could only tell the owner, the mare must die in a few 
hours; suppuration and absorption had taken place in the leg 
(near hind), and a post-mortem showed the lungs very much 
injected with the pus. No ulceration had taken place in the 
leg. I presume, the exacerbations of the fever had taken 
place at night, so as to escape notice. 
The 3d case occurred Feb. 2, 1852, and was destroyed in 
the middle of May. It was that of a young grey mare, like 
the others used for draught; was seized with an attack of 
gripes, under which she bruised her hock in kicking, for which 
bruise the village farrier the next day bled her at the toe, 
not by making a clean incision, but by scraping away horny 
sensible sole to the bone, and then I was sent for as the leg 
began to swell. This makes it difficult to determine whether 
the injury or indigestion was the primary cause. The glands 
in the groin and the absorbents of the leg were inflamed, and 
went on to suppuration and ulceration, but a long time 
intervened between the appearance of the first ulcer near the 
heal, and the final closing of the last in the groin. The 
