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come any real or fancied heart depression), and consequently 
I administered at this hour two drachms of acetanilid and 
half a drachm of digitalis. As a test, I kept No. 2 under 80 
grain doses of quinine every four hours, and two ounces of 
alcohol every two hours; and resolved to keep No. 1 under 
acetanilid and digitalis according to indications for its use. 
Throughout No. 1 received three ounces ol alcohol every 
four hours. The following is a correct register of the tem¬ 
perature, pulse and respiration rates of the carriage horse 
(No. 1) during the attack, with side notes of the date of each 
antipyretic dose of the acetanilid : 
MONDAY. 
Temperature. 
Pulse. 
Respiration. Medicine. 
10 a.m. 
10 63- 
60 
24 100 gr. quinine, 
1 p.m. 
107 
66 
22 
7 p.m. 
107! 
65 
v 23 Acet. 3 ij. Dig. 3ss. 
9 p.m. 
105 
58 
22 
11 p.m. 
I 04 f 
56 
23 
TUESDAY. 
9 a.m. 
I0 5 i 
60 
20 “ “ 
2 p.m. 
I02f 
50 
26 
[I here thought the temperature was sufficiently low, and 
withheld the medicine.] 
7 -J-p.m. 
106 
60 
20 Acet. 3 ij. Dig. 3ss. 
11:30 p.m. 
■° 4 t 
56 
28 
3 a.m. 
I0 3 t 
56 
27 “ “ 
' 
WEDNESDAY. 
8 a.m. 
1041 
50 
20 “ “ 
2 p.m. 
104 
54 
30 
5 p.m. 
I0 3 i 
50 
27 
[Patient appeared 
so well 
that I again left off the antipy- 
retie, and 
never gave another dose of it, keeping simply to 
the alcoholic stimulant.] 
• 
11 p.m. 
105 
54 
23 
THURSDAY. 
8 a.m. 
io 5 | 
58 
26 
2 p.m. 
105 
58 
30 
6 p.m. 
105 
57 
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