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ment; very often they can be tempted to partake of a little 
lettuce, carrot-tops or milk-weed when they would refuse any¬ 
thing else. 
One patient of mine whose temperature was never higher 
than io6° recovered in two weeks, but was so emaciated that it 
took three months to get her in a condition fit to hitch up, while 
another belonging to a physician had a temperature of io8°, by 
his own and two other thermometers, made a complete recovery 
and was at work in three weeks. 
My own mare was taken sick while at pasture and had prob¬ 
ably been ill a week when I found her; she had a filly three 
months old by her side ; it took me three hours to lead her three 
miles, and she died the fourth day after her arrival at home ; 
we did not deem it advisable to take the colt away from her, as 
it seemed to fret her to have it out of her sight, and although 
it continued to nurse it seemed to derive no bad effects from 
either the milk (which was of course scanty) or its association 
with its mother. The mare’s temperature was 106.2° when I 
found her, and it gradually subsided until the night before her 
death it registered at 97°. 
Another rather unusual case recently came under my obser¬ 
vation, in a large black gelding of about twelve years of age. 
He was hitched to a phaeton and was being driven in a funeral 
procession when he suddenly developed a severe lameness in the 
near hind leg or foot, and seemed in great agony, kicking the 
ground with that foot continually. The gentleman driving him 
made as careful examination of the foot as was possible under 
the circumstances, and finding nothing with great difficulty suc¬ 
ceeded in getting him to our infirmary, the horse getting worse 
all the time, so that upon his arrival it was only by exercising 
the utmost care and prudence that we were enabled to unhitch 
him from the vehicle without getting injured ourselves. His 
suffering was something remarkable, and while we were en¬ 
deavoring to remove the harness he threw himself repeatedly, 
and when placed in a box he continued to throw himself, and 
while on his feet would kick most viciously with the affected 
