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ually increased, allowed to pick a little grass, and a fair allowance of 
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nutritious food. Along with this she was given arsenious acid three 
times daily, commencing with one grain, and gradually increasing to 
three grain doses; lime was slacked in water where the fumes reached 
her, and the enlarged glands well rubbed with Iodine ointment. 
Cloths wrung out of hot water were applied to the hock, and the hoof 
pared and kept soft so as to offer as little obstruction as possible to the 
circulation. By the middle of July she had made a good recovery, 
although some thickening of the hock remained without any lameness. 
The case gave me considerable anxiety as for some time it had every 
appearance of. terminating in glanders. 
She was now given hard drives, and sent to Manchester, New 
Hampshire, where she again became ill, and was turned out to pasture 
for a week, then taken up and sent by rail to Boston, where I again 
took charge of her, at the St. James Stable, on the 14th inst. 
August 14.—Found her in the following condition: weak, stagger¬ 
ing gait; pulse sixty ; respirations forty; low,*painful cough; rusty col¬ 
ored discharge from nostrils; urine passing frequently, especially on 
being moved or when coughing ; feces scanty but dark colored ; entire 
absence of sound, and dullness extending over three fourths of area of 
left lung; dullness over about half of the lower third of right lung, with 
some friction higher up ; and legs swollen. 
Treatment.—Gave half of an ordinary cathartic, and a stimulating 
drink ; placed her feet in hot water, and applied stimulants to sides and 
joins, and as she ate but sparingly, a quart of milk was given noon and 
night. 
August 15.—Lungs same as yesterday ; pulse fifty-six. I now 
noticed that the stall was very wet, and that her urine was passing in¬ 
voluntarily, very clear and intensely acid. Thinking that this might be 
the result of diuresis and weakness <4 the bladder, I passed my cathe¬ 
ter, in doing so found the external genitals very loose and powerless, 
and the bladder quite empty, on passing my hand forward, however, 
into the vagina found it distended till it filled the whole cavity, and 
clung to the walls of the pelvis, it was half full of urine, the balance 
being atmospheric air. I now passed my hand into the rectum, and 
applied pressure to the vagina, expelling both urine and air, when the 
vagina instead of contracting remained a loose, flabby mass. Having 
left the catheter inserted in the bladder, I noticed on withdrawing my 
hand that air passed inwards with a hissing sound. On again inserting 
my hand per rectum, this time the bladder was found to be distended 
