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eight days it got decidedly worse, and was now very thirsty 

 and passing urine very often ; pulse agitated, and fifty-six ; 

 fearfully tucked up in the abdomen; lost condition terribly; 

 anxious for water ; bowels now confined ; faeces light in colour 

 and covered with mucus ; eye quite yellow ; membrane in the 

 space between the last incisor and first molar of the upper jaw 

 yellowish in tinge ; breathing increased ; evinced pain on pres- 

 sure on the false ribs on right side up and down, anteriorly and 

 posteriorly. Next day pulse down to forty-four; anxiety for 

 water and frequent staling gone ; and continued thus for about 

 ten days ; eating well ; was more lively ; the breathing more 

 gentle; the bowels kept regular. By the end of this time it 

 fell off again, and shortly after it improved, and was better 

 upon the whole ; but the urine was now passed in a small stream, 

 and instead of being amber-coloured was of a reddish-brown 

 appearance ; evinced no uneasiness when voiding it ; continued 

 to eat in a fair way for a week or so. By this time its eye was 

 not so yellow ; it left off feeding, and its pulse was now of a 

 very different character — sixty, rather full artery, and rather 

 wiry ; it gradually sank, and died quickly. It never coughed 

 during the time it was ill, and it lay on both sides. The eye 

 at first was not yellow, but to me appeared blanched." 



]\Ir. Dixon also sent me the symptoms presented by the foal. 

 He says — " I was called to the foal on the 13th of March (but I 

 saw this foal in December, when it was a nice, thriving, pro- 

 mising animal), but about eight days before I was called to it I 

 was passing the farm and looked in. The foal was in a box. 

 I went in and handled it, and I was perfectly struck by its 

 appearance — just shaggy hair, skin and bone ; the hair of a 

 dirty dry colour, in fact quite darkened to a mousy brown, 

 while before it was a lightish brown ; pot-bellied. I examined 

 the hay in the rack, took out a handful of dry, musty, black 

 stuff, more fit to litter pigs ; so I was called on the day men- 

 tioned. It seemed inclined to hang down its head, or oftener 

 stood with it in the manger, resting on the under jaw ; fore legs 

 apart ; pulse eighty, with some degree of power in it ; eye 

 yellow ; the pot-belly gone, and rather tucked up ; pain on right 

 side (like the rest). Next day comatose, pushing its head in 

 corner of box, cold legs and ears, and dead next morning. 

 Great debility and weakness were present from the first. I 



