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ten or eleven years old, and had been used upon a railway up 
to within a few days of her illness. I was requested to attend 
her on the night of the 26th of December last; when I 
arrived, I learned that she had been brought to this town, 
a distance of three miles, for an empty cart, and that while 
returning home she began to sweat profusely, and that it 
was with difficulty she could be got to the stable. 
I found her lying down, straining violently, and voiding 
small quantities of black-coloured urine, breathing with diffi¬ 
culty, visible mucous membranes injected and tinged yellow, 
extremities cold, pulse seventy per minute, several parts of 
her body were enormously swollen, but principally the 
shoulders and hind quarters, the swellings being very hard 
and cold; when she attempted to move, she could only 
extend her hind feet a few inches at a time, bowels consti¬ 
pated and accompanied by slight griping pains. 
I administered a purging ball, containing six drachms of 
aloes, and ordered her loins and the swollen parts to be 
fomented with warm water continuously until I saw her 
again. I left a ball containing one drachm of opium and half 
a drachm of calomel to be given in case the straining continued, 
which was accordingly done. 
27th 11 a.m.—I found her better, she had eaten a little 
bran mash, and drank some chilled water, and had left off 
straining. The pulse was about sixty in the minute, the 
swellings somewhat diminished, extremities warmer, bowels 
beginning to act, but she was still very stiff when moved, and 
the urine very dark coloured. I gave no medicine, ordered 
the fomentations to be continued until night, and the body to 
be well clothed afterwards. 
28th.—Animal much better, the swellings have nearly all 
disappeared, the medicine had acted well upon her bowels, 
the stiffness is passing off, the visible mucous membranes 
have assumed their natural colour, the extremities are warm, 
the pulse lowered to about forty-five in the minute, and the 
appetite is returning. I gave her a vegetable tonic ball, and 
left another for her to have on the following day. 
30th.—She has continued to go on well, and to all appear¬ 
ance there is not now much the matter with her. The urine 
also is nearly of its natural colour. Repeated the tonic bail, 
and ordered her a few minutes’ walking exercise daily. 
She resumed her work on the 4th of January, and has 
continued to go on well since. 
The other cases were similar to the above, and all termi¬ 
nated favourably under the same treatment. 
