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Tr. Aeon Rad. m. xx., every four hours. Salicylic Ac. 3 ij-» 
every three hours. Potassa Nit., freely in drinking water, and 
hot applications externally. 
May 11th. —Some improvement; temperature, 1031° ; pulse, 
72, and some inclination to eat; bowels had not moved ; urine 
high colored, but increased in quantity; but when tested by heat 
and nitric ac., I found enormous precipitate of albumen. At 9 
p.m., of same day, was called in haste to see him again, as owner 
said he was bloated and dying. I found him in great pain, 
sweating, rolling and tumbling, and very tympanitic, and saw that 
I had a bad case of acute intestinal indigestion to deal with, and 
gave a drench, composed of eth. nitrosi, chi. hyd., sp. am¬ 
monia Aromaticus, but gave no relief, and repeated in half hour, 
and added sp. terebinth, and gave relief. And as there had 
been no action from purgative given the morning of the 10th, I 
gave a purge in solution. He became so tympanitic again that I 
had to resort to trocar and canula twice before he got permanent 
relief. During this attack of indigestion the stiffness and sore¬ 
ness of rheumatism had entirely disappeared, but as soon as per¬ 
manent relief was given, and he became cool, the former symptoms 
returned ; during the time he was so tympanitic, there was terrible 
dyspnoea, as he was badly affected with broken wind. 
May IZth. —Bowels move freely ; less cracking of joints on 
movement, and swellings have shifted some, but are not so pain¬ 
ful. Temperature, 101° ; pulse, 60 ; urine improved in color, and 
less albumen when tested. 
May 13 th. —Temperature, 981° ; pulse, 43; bowels in good 
condition; no albuminous precipitate in urine; he is able to 
move without showing pain; extremities cool, and swelling dis¬ 
appears. 
May 14 th. —Pulse and temperature about normal; appetite 
good ; bowels and urine normal; case discharged. This case is 
rather interesting to me on account of seriousness, and be ausehe 
would have succumbed beyond a doubt without the aid of trocar 
and canula. I have since discovered that the cause of the indi¬ 
gestion was a change in food from oats to chop. I think many 
such cases are lost by not being punctured in time. Some prac- 
