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RETROSPECTS OF VETERINARY PRACTICE. 
easiness having occurred, and the pulse also increased, the 
medicine was discontinued for a few days, but the discharge 
of blood was not one whit the better. 
At the end of a week, six ounces of turpentine were given 
three times a day, and continued for several days, with a 
recurrence only of the former symptoms, but no abatement 
in the disease. 
During the use of the turpentine the appetite became 
impaired, but the mare drank about as usual; still, with all 
the doses given, the kidneys were not inordinately aroused. 
Plugging, cold water, ice, &c., were now spoken of, but 
deemed more or less too difficult of application. 
Entertaining an idea that want of tone was the principal 
cause, I resolved to try the effects of a course of tonics, com¬ 
bined with astringents, given internally, and selected for this 
purpose iron and gentian, with tannic acid—the latter on 
account of its well-known effects on mucous membranes, and 
believing the discharge arose either from the turbinated 
bones, as it was arterial blood, or the sinuses. 
The symptoms of improvement were speedily manifest 
under this treatment. The appetite was excited, condition 
gained, and daily the discharge grew less, the animal also 
becoming cleaner. A substantial diet was given in lieu of 
clover, which only had been previously allowed by the owner, 
and in ten days the nostrils were free from blood. The 
visible membranes had in the meantime, from the action of 
the astringent, become pale and blanched, scarcely a vessel 
being recognised in them; the bowels were costive, the 
mouth dry and parched, the skin hot and rough under the 
hand. 
With these symptoms before me I felt that the arrest was 
only of a temporary character. I therefore continued the 
iron and gentian without the acid, expecting daily to see the 
original symptoms returned when I entered the stable. In this 
I was, however, agreeably disappointed. The mare was now 
sent to work, and continued all right for several months, 
when, on being excessively galloped one day, a slight trick¬ 
ling from the nostrils came on; but this gave way under the 
same treatment. 
She was soon afterwards sold, taken from the neighbour¬ 
hood, and I lost sight of her. 
3. HAEMOPTYSIS AND TUBERCULOSIS. 
A brown cart-horse, nine years old, sixteen hands high, 
was sent to draw a load of coals a distance of two and a half 
