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temperature, 104; respiration, 28. Treatment: swab the throat 
again, and as she can now swallow again, we, by being careful, 
ai>ain commence giving the salycilate of soda in three drachm 
doses every four hours. 
23d.—No improvement since yesterday, but have the patient 
placed in slings, to which she takes nicely. Treatment same as 
before. 
24th.—Doing finely. Can begin to eat a bran mash. Swell¬ 
ings of her limbs are beginning to disappear. Pulse, 61; tem¬ 
perature, 103J. Continue same treatment. 
25th.—Is again approaching convalesence ; appetite improv¬ 
ing ; can begin to move her legs, and after taking away the 
slings lies down herself, for the first time, this morning. Pulse, 
50; temperature, 102 . Treatment: the salycilate of soda is to 
be given every six hours, in three drachm doses. 
26th.—Swellings are fast disappearing; appetite good ; bowels 
regular. Pulse, 48 ; temperature, 101 J. Apply weak liniment 
to the joints, with friction, and salycilate soda evening and morn 
ing. 
• 27th.—Doing finely; no change of treatment. 
28th.—Convalescent. Treatment: ferri sulph., 3 iss ; nux 
vomica, 3 vl ? nitrate potash, 3 ii ; mix, divide in twelve powders, 
one to be given evening and morning. 
29th.—Sent home, a distance of about a mile. The mare 
kept doing finely, all but a cough, for which I prescribed iodide 
potassa in half drachm doses, evening and morning, with a 
blister to her throat, so that by the middle of August she was 
doing light work around the city — enough for exercise. 
On September 4th the doctor sold the mare to Albert Koch, 
a livery man of this place, for a good round sum. On the 6 th I 
received word that Mr. Koch had a sick mare. I was astonished 
to find my old patient in his barn, and in the same condition as 
heretofore. The disease commencing in her throat, I gave about 
the same treatment as I had done before. In twenty-four hours 
the throat was better. Then her limbs began to swell again, 
which continued for five days, and then the disease began to 
abate. She was again convalescent on the 14th, with slight swell¬ 
ing, which disappeared in a few days. On the 20th she was 
