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LAWRENCE CAMPBELL. 
attempt to describe the disease in full, as the etiology and symp¬ 
toms are well known to you all, but it is the unusual treatment 
which I wish particularly to set before you, the result of which 
surprised me greatly, in fact I have not recovered from it yet; 
the dose of the agent used was so very much larger than any 
text-book sets down as being safe to administer, and so much 
larger than any practitioner has ever before given, so far as I 
have been able to ascertain, that I have decided to place the 
matter before this association for discussion. To explain the 
results of this unexpected recovery from a toxic dose, I must 
first give the history of the symptoms of the case, as I found 
them from hour to hour after reaching the patient. 
I was called by telephone about 6 o’clock P. M. one evening 
in July, 1892. The call stated that one of a heavy team of 
draught horses, belonging to a customer of mine, had fallen on 
the street about an hour previously; as numbers of horses were 
falling with sunstroke daily, sunstroke was, uppermost in my 
mind. I ascertained the symptoms over the “ phone,” and diag¬ 
nosing the case as one of sunstroke, I ordered the immediate 
application of quantities of water externally, and ice to the brain. 
As the case was fully five miles away, I was unable to see the 
patient for nearly an hour, so was unable to find out the extent 
of the height of temperature at that time ; however, upon reaching 
the patient at 7 o’clock P. M., I found the temperature 105^°, 
the pulse rather uneven, and frequently (I do not recollect the 
number of beats per minute) the breathing was quick and hur¬ 
ried, the horse seemed to be in a semi-unconscious condition 
and laid quietly upon his side. Upon examination I found him 
to be a gelding, six years old, and weight about 1,450 pounds. 
I ascertained from the driver that he had had a slight attack the 
year previous. I immediately mixed him a dose of all the 
stimulants I had, and sent the driver to the nearest drug store, 
which was a mile away, for a fresh supply. At 8 o’clock P. M. 
I found the temperature 103°, and discontinued the external 
application of water ; at 10 o’clock P. M. he was struggling to 
rise but was not quite strong enough. At this time I admin- 
