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E. MINK 
I he treatment ordered was as follows: Fomentations to the swol¬ 
len parts ; a laxative, nutritious diet, and if he refused solid food was to 
have two or three gallons of milk daily. Whisky, tine, muriate of iron 
and quinine were also to be given three times per day. His allowance 
of water to be limited so as to induce him to drink the milk. Any 
accumulations of pus were to be opened and let out. 
On May 13th I again saw him. He was then able to move around 
some, was out eating some grass, and suffering but little apparent pain 
m the limb, though much emaciated. There was pus in the limb above 
the knee, burrowed around and beneath the muscles of the parts diffi¬ 
cult to let out by lancing. 
I advised tonics, stimulants and nutritious food, but he gradually 
failed until his condition was hopeless, and he was destroyed. 
May 26th, 1876, was called to the Rochester Driving Park to attend 
a bay gelding, four years old, for the purpose of treating a capped hock, 
t was of recent origin, and attended with slight inflammatory action, 
advised a cooling lotion, which was applied for about a week, when I 
passed a seton through it. This was immediately succeeded by more 
than the usual amount of inflammatory action resulting from the use of 
setons in such cases. A laxative diet, some magnesia sulphate and 
fomentations to the limb were ordered. 
I found that the seton failed to establish a discharge of healthy 
looking pus. I intended leaving it in until such discharge was pro- 
I again visited, by request, on the 11th day of June, and found him 
suffering from pyogenic fever. The submaxillary space was much swol¬ 
len, and the setoned limb affected with diffuse cellular inflammation and 
suppuration. About four inches above the tarsus, on the inner aspect 
of the limb, I found a collection of pus, which I opened. This wound 
afterwards showed a tendency to slough. 
Pus formed in various parts of the limb, and around the throat, lips 
and side of the head, which I opened, from time to time, as it collected. 
Large collections of pus also formed in the scrotal region which were 
opened and let out. 
., «;• C ° n T d ?° n ^ ontinued without any material change until about 
the iUth of July, when improvement commenced, and he finally made 
a complete recovery. 
In regard to treatment he was allowed to run at grass during the 
day ,n an orchard around his stable, and occupied the carriage floor of 
a barn at night. His water allowance was restricted, and its place freely 
