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W. S. WINGET. 
In catching it, it went down, and was unable to get up. It 
broke out in a profuse sweat and seemed to suffer great pain. 
Mr. R- hitched his mate (a large clumsy draft mare, 
weighing 1,400 pounds, half Norman), and started for Farm¬ 
ington, four miles distant. He noticed when he left home that 
his horse went lame in the right hind leg; trotted along for a 
mile, when his horse went down. 
He stayed with his horse, and started a neighbor, near at 
hand for me, and when he arrived his horse was sweating pro¬ 
fusely, the gluteal muscles swollen tense and hard, and the 
horse in a very excitable, nervous condition; pulse 75 to 100. 
I had him taken to my stable, withdrew his urine (which was of 
a dark coffee-color), and prescribed the following treatment: 
R. Potassii Bromide 3 iv, and Ext. Gelsemii Fluidi § ii. 
Every three hours. Citrate of Lithium 3 iii, every two hours. 
I also ordered hot packs kept constantly on his loins, changed 
every few minutes, which I consider of the utmost importance 
in every case. 
In the third case I had prescribed all the lithium I had in 
stock, and as I was of the opinion that it was a specific in all 
cases of azoturia at this date, I started a messenger to the 
nearest town for it. In the meantime I drew her urine and pre¬ 
scribed the following: R. Potassii Bromide 3 vi, Ext. Gel¬ 
semii Fluidi 3 iii. Every two hours for three doses and hot 
water packs as in the third case. 
The second case was very quiet, with a pulse of 60, unable 
to get up, and with extreme muscular debility. I treated this 
case simply with wet blankets or packs over the loins and hips, 
changed every five minutes for six hours, and afterwards at 
longer intervals. Stimulants of whiskey % iv, every four hours. 
I am not boasting on the treatment when I say that every 
case was on its feet the second day and made a nice recovery, 
but wish to impress on this association that I am strongly in 
favor of warm applications to the loins and back in these cases. 
If surroundings are favorable—that is, a warm box stall, with 
dry blankets properly applied afterward. 
