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J. F. PEASE. 
The second case was that of a roan gelding, used as a de¬ 
livery horse. He was seen first about noon, Oct. 23d, 1889, 
when he was just over a chill. An examination of the chest 
was made, but owing to the horse being quite fat it was un¬ 
satisfactory. Diagnosis was withheld, and the owner warned 
against a possible case of pneumonia. Had aconite adminis¬ 
tered every hour, and saw him again at 7 P.M. Symptoms 
about the same, e. g.—temperature, 106.6 0 ; pulse, 70; 
coughing some. 
Prescribed veral. veride and quinine in small doses four 
times daily, with the result that the pulse steadily declined 
in strength and frequency, while the temperature fell to 103.5°, 
but gradually rose to io5 P on the morning of the 25th, then 
receding to 104°, when an acetanilid pill brought it to ioo p 
in a few hours. The horse then seemed perfectly normal, 
except for the cough ; ate well and looked bright; pulse, 38. 
He was thinner than at first, and auscultation was more suc¬ 
cessfully performed, but gave nothing abnormal. The verat. 
and quinine were repeated in 3’i doses of the former, and 3 ss. 
of the latter, four times daily. 
Being called out of town I did not see the case again 
until noon ol the 28th. Found the temperature 102.5°. The 
groom said the horse had had a chill two days before and 
still coughed some. Changed the veratrum for digitalis. 
The pulse kept nearly normal, but the temperature varied as 
follows : 
•October 28th, 10 P.M., 102.2° ; 29th, 9 A.M., ioo-6° ; 9 P.M., 
102.2°; 30th, 9 A.M., ioi.°; 31st, 9 A.M., 102.4°; chill earlier; 
9 P.M., 101.6°; November 1st, 10 P.M. , 102° ; 2d, ioo.6 p to 
I00.2 P . 
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It soon became apparent that the fever was decidely inter 
mittent in its character, and the evening visits were made late 
for the purpose of giving a pill of 3 ij quinine each evening. 
Four or five such doses were administered, when the tempera¬ 
ture finally remained at the normal point. The horse was 
then placed on four-grain doses of arsenious acid, twice daily, 
and made a good recovery. Toward the last, the intermission 
took the double quartan form, the same as the preceding 
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