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about two inches above the tarsal arch, and about 20 ounces of 
pus escaped. 
The alcoholic stimulant is given in increased doses three 
times daily. Fomentations continued. 
April 22d .—The animal’s appetite begins to fail her, she 
taking only two quarts of oats and five pounds of hay. The 
temperature fluctuates between 98° and 102° during the day. 
The continued suppurative drain begins to tell on the animal’s 
system as she is gradually emaciating. 
The leg does not decrease in size; more abscesses form and 
discharge. 
April 23d .—After one week’s treatment there are no signs 
of improvement in the animal’s condition. The leg still swol¬ 
len and painful, a mass of indolent ulcers, forming and dis¬ 
charging abscesses. 
The animal’s appetite is poor, the temperature fluctuating 
between 98° and 102 3-5 0 during the day. 
The same treatment is continued. 
April 24th—30th .—No change for the better, animal in still 
greater distressed pain. She has never lain down since she was 
admitted to the hospital. The temperature fluctuating between 
98^ and 102 4-5 0 daily. Up to date over forty abscesses have 
been opened, all having an ulcer which has no tendency to 
heal. The appetite is poor and the animal is reduced consider¬ 
ably in weight. 
April31st .—Animal was destroyed and the following post- 
mortem-examination made: 
In dissecting the leg, the incision was started at the seat of 
the abscess, near the hock, following upwards in the course of the 
posterior tibial artery, between the bellies of the gastrocnemii 
muscles to the popliteal lymphatic glands, between the biceps 
femoris and semi-tendinosus muscles. Thence through the 
interstice, the branches of great adductor of the thigh, over the 
vastus internus, thence between the pectineus, sartorius and psoas 
iliacus muscles, and reaching the seat of the deep inguinal 
lymphatic glands. 
