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after catheterization, however, groaning ceased and animal sat np 
and picked at bedding. Considerable rumbling of bowels and 
flatus, with stools of normal consistency, purging did not follow 
until the cathartic drench was repeated next day, when it was 
very profuse. I now prescibed the bicarbonate of soda in fonr- 
onnce doses every six hours in pint of water as before, and san- 
metto (Od Chem. Co.) in one-onnce doses every four hours. 
This, however, could not be obtained at the country druggists, 
and consequently was not started until six o’clock that evening, 
just at the time I returned to pass the catheter to relieve him 
for the night, when I found him lying very flat on his side and 
breathing quite heavily. I gave the first dose of sanmetto 
at six o’clock that evening, which was about twenty hours after 
time of attack, and ordered it to be given every four hours right 
through the night; this was continued for the next twenty-four 
hours, with condition much the same, until when the attendant 
returned to give him the ten o’clock dose on the second night 
(just forty-eight hours from the time he went down) he found 
the horse on his feet, and when I called the following morning, 
and was about to remove the catheter from my phaeton, he in¬ 
formed me that I would not need it, as he had seen the horse 
perform that function himself all right. The bicarbonate of 
soda was continued until the end of that day, in conjunction 
with the sanmetto and the sanmetto continued alone that night 
as usual, every four hours, when it was ordered to be given in 
ounce doses three times a day. The symptoms during this 
time were as follows : After regaining his feet that night, he 
remained on them until I saw him on the following morning, 
standing well on three legs, but almost unable to make any 
movement on account of the entire loss of power of the near 
hind leg. During that day he was able to lie down and get np 
moderately well, but the following morning I found him down 
at eleven o’clock, where he had been since five, unable to regain 
his feet. 
I had him dragged out into the yard in the sun, and lifted 
to his feet and held there, and his legs rubbed until he could 
stand on them, which he was able to do in a few minutes. I 
found, however, that he still had no use of the left hind leg, so 
I rubbed it well with spts. terebinth., and soon found out the 
leg was not “ dead,” as he was able to strike the ground with it 
quite vigorously, and finally he made off, and traveled several 
yards, although he knuckled badly on both hind legs in doing 
so, and arriving in high grass,'he remained there and rested and 
