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about with difficulty. I continued the lithium for two days 
longer, when I changed to nux vomica. Horse walked home 
in ten days. 
Case II. Driving mare, nine years old, brought to hospi¬ 
tal, having been taken close by. She went down immediately 
after being admitted; passed catheter and gave lithii citras 
in 3 ii doses every three hours for twenty-four hours. Sec¬ 
ond day mare got up and passed urine without the aid of 
catheter; reduced the doses of lithium to 3 i three times a 
day for two days longer, when lithium was stopped and cin¬ 
chona, etc., was given, the mare making a good recovery 
in a week. 
Case III. I consider this case of the most importance as 
demonstrating the applicability of this drug in the treatment 
of this disease. I was called to see a six-year-old cab horse 
suffering with what was supposed to be colic. I received the 
call at nine o’clock P.M., and found that the horse had been 
down since five o’clock that afternoon, the owner thinking 
it a case of colic from which he would recover without assist¬ 
ance. I found the horse in a profuse perspiration, unable to 
rise, although making frantic efforts to do so. I found con-' 
siderable hyperasmia of the muscles of the lumbar region, 
some fever, pulse rapid and hard, with considerable delirium. 
After passing catheter I prescribed lithii citras in doses of 3 ii 
every three hours and bromides every three hours alternately. 
Applied hot salt to loins. Next morning I found the delirium 
gone and horse resting easily. The attendant thought the 
horse had urinated, but passed catheter and found that he had 
not. I stopped the bromide, still continuing the lithia with 
the addition of tinct. gentian. Passed the catheter again at 
night. Next day the attendant was positive the horse had 
urinated, consequently did not pass the catheter again. The 
horse remained down ten days before being able to rise, when 
he would stand a few minutes and lie down again. I con¬ 
tinued the lithium ever}' three hours for four days, when I 
changed it to three times a day in 3 i doses, with the addition 
of cinchona and nux. One week from the time he got up 
he walked about, but was very lame. He improved very 
