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cidecl to send him to the hospital. He was placed in a large, 
loose box and carefully watched. His temperature dropped 
and large swellings appeared all over the body. The fore 
legs were very much swollen — the knees would measure 
thirty inches around. A large pendulous swelling appeared 
on the median line under the abdomen and thorax. In the 
inguinal region also appeared large swellings. 
The swellings of the head were interesting. On the right 
side it was so great that it nearly closed the passage and 
caused respiration to take place almost wholly through the 
left side, which also was somewhat swollen. The appetite 
was poor at this time and a fatal ending was justly apprehend¬ 
ed. The patient, because of the enormous swellings and ex¬ 
treme weakness, could hardly move, and when urged to do so 
in the stall, much inconvenience was experienced. Gradually 
the petechia in the nose and eye disappeared and the swellings 
slowly subsided. His appetite began to return and slowly 
he regained his former normal condition, and yesterday, May 
18th, he went away to the country to enjoy the blessings of 
freedom in an open field for a short time. Our treatment for 
the last complaint may be worth special mention. We 
gave him eight ounces of very strong coffee; in this we 
put, at first, one-half of a grain of sulphate of strychnia and 
gradually increased the same to one and one-half grains at a 
dose. This was given him every four hours. Besides this, 
we administered one ounce of potassium nitrate three times a 
day in the drinking water. The result was, as stated before, a 
complete recovery. This was indeed a queer series of afflic¬ 
tions, beginning with bronchitis and continued by laryngitis, 
adenitis with the formation of abscesses, variola equina and 
ending with purpura hasmorrhagica, which was the most seri¬ 
ous of all. 
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WOUND OF THE CAROTID IN A HORSE. 
By M. Van Autgarden. 
In this case the operation of bleeding the horse, which had 
been confided to a blacksmith, was followed in the course of 
