/* PURPURA HEMORRHAGICA. 
She was seven years old, and had been in Mr. Darby’s 
possession some weeks, without having had any previous, 
illness, and had been ridden by a lady the day before I saw 
her, when she appeared to be in perfect health. On the 
following morning she was noticed by the attendant to be 
dull and off her feed/” I was consequently requested to. 
see her. I found her standing in the box, appearing some¬ 
what dull, with a slight cough and soreness of the throat, 
pulse 50, breathing heavy, respirations fifteen per minute, 
the submaxillary glands a little enlarged, a slight watery 
discharge from both nostrils, legs warm, ears rather cold, 
bowels natural. Thinking it to be an ordinary case of in¬ 
fluenza, I ordered soft diet, the extremities to be kept warm, 
a stimulant to the throat, and gave an ordinary fever-. 
18th.—Animal not quite so well, pulse increased to 58 per 
minute, breathing about the same as before, cough more 
troublesome, discharge from nostrils increased, and of a 
yellow colour, ears cold, legs warm, appetite rather better ; 
she lies down, and the bowels are still acting naturally* 
Repeat the liniment to throat, and giye—- 
Ext. Belladon., 5ij; 
Potas. Nitr., 5iij; in ball. 
V* . V ' 
The attendant came the following morning, and stated that 
the mare was considerably better; she had coughed less, and 
also partaken of more food. 
20th.—The animal has continued to improve until 
this morning, when I saw her again, and found her 
not so w T ell; pulse 70 and feeble; respiration twenty in the 
minute; discharge from the nostrils increased, both in viscidity 
and quantity; Schneiderian and conjunctival membranes 
much injected; legs warm, ears still cold, cough much 
better; the bowels are now slightly constipated, and the faeces 
covered with yellow' mucus. Gave— 
Ext. Belladoa., 5>j i 
Potass. Nit., Jij ; 
Spt. JEtker. Nit., 5iv> 
in a pint of water; applied a more powerful stimulant to the 
throat and along the neck, and administered a clyster of 
warm water. 
21st.—No alteration, with the exception of the bowels 
having been relieved. 
22d.—Pulse 70, breathing eighteen in the minute ; Schnei¬ 
derian membrane now pale, but dotted over in places with 
applied 
ball. 
