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The animal was placed under alcoholic stimulants every three 
hours, the swelling being fomented several times a day, after 
being scarified in several places. 
December 8th, the same condition continued. Temperature, 
102°; pulse, 39, respiration, 14. The whole leg had a very un¬ 
healthy appearance, with small gangrenous patches at intervals, 
the hair coming off around the patches. 
December 10th, the swelling remained at a stand still. A 
few small abscesses, which had formed at various points on 
the inside of the leg and along the course of the lymphatics, were 
opened and dressed with carbolic solution, with internal treatment 
by the same. Poultices and fomentations were continued during 
the day. 
On the following day a few more small abscesses were found 
and opened, and a hard, round swelling was felt in the axillary 
region. The movements of the animal were accomplished with 
great difficulty, and fearing her inability to rise again when lying 
down, she was placed in slings. 
December 13th, the temperature had risen to 103°; the 
pulse remaining low, 39. Same treatment was continued. 
December 14th, temperature, 103|- 0 ; pulse, 47. The ab¬ 
scesses were discharging freely. The animal having been removed 
from the slings, had laid down, but was unable to rise to her feet 
again. She was raised, and when standing seemed to have lost 
the use of her fore leg. The swelling of the axillary region had 
increased enormously, and pressure upon the bracial plexus was 
evidently the cause of her loss of power. 
During the evening she became so restless in the slings that 
it was thought better to remove them, and in the morning she 
was found down, unable to get up, and in so critical a condition 
that she was destroyed. 
At the post-mortem the leg was found to have been the seat 
of extensive purulent infiltrations, and the axilla that of an enor¬ 
mous abscess, containing several quarts of laudable pus. The 
wounds of the operation were granulating and had almost entirely 
healed. An examination of the navicular bone revealed the pres¬ 
sure of extensive ulceration of the fibro-cartilage of the posterior 
face, connected with a small cavity of the sesamoid bone. 
