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of spirit of hartshorn. It is probable that neither of these 

 drenches would have had any injurious effect had the stomach 

 been in a healthy state. I have known a horse quickly destroyed 

 by being- drenched with a quai't of beer in which one or two 

 ounces of tobacco had been infused, and have seen other horses 

 take much larger doses without any ill effect. I have also known 

 a drench which contained two ounces of ether destroy a horse 

 by inflaming his stomach ; and in one instance four ounces of oil 

 of turpentine produced a similar effect, but this horse was under 

 the effect of a moderate purgative at the time the tui'pentine was 

 given. Whenever a medicine produces an injurious effect upon 

 the stomach, I think it is generally indicated by the shivering, 

 shaking, or trembling which immediately follows. I have seen 

 a strong infusion of tobacco produce this effect; also a solution 

 of arsenic. I gave several doses of arsenical solution to a glan- 

 dered horse, and it was invariably followed by shivering ; it 

 was a large dose, from two to four ounces of Fowler's solution. 

 The shivering went off in about an hour. At first I gave the 

 horse a little warm beer, with some ginger in it, to stop the 

 shivering, but afterwards I suffered it to go off of its own accord. 

 It is worthy of remark, that although this horse did not appear 

 to be injured by the arsenic, but continued in good condition, 

 and in good spirits, yet some time after, when it was necessary 

 to destroy him, upon examining the body after death the stomach 

 appeared in a morbid state, and the spleen considerably enlarged. 

 From these and many other circumstances of a similar kind, it 

 appears that although acute inflammation does not often take 

 place in the stomach, yet a chronic kind of inflammation, or 

 some other morbid state, is by no means an unfrequent oc- 

 ■currence. I am inclined to think that botts disoi-der the stomach 

 in this way more frequently than is generally suspected. The 

 symptoms of acute inflammation of the stomach are, a very quick 

 and weak pulse, great depression of spirits, quick breathing, and 

 coldness of the ears and legs. I have seen all these symptoms 

 brought on by giving four ounces of nitre at one dose. I have 

 seen it produced also by large doses of sublimate, arsenic, and 

 blue vitriol. 



[Acute inflammation of the stomach is, as the author observes, 

 extremely rare, unless produced by ])oison ; but in a well-marked 

 fatal case that occurred to the editor a few years since, the 

 symptoms presented were, an exceedingly dull and stupified ap- 

 pearance — eyes suffused with tears — eyelids swollen, and nearly 

 closed — mouth hot — fteces hard, and coated with mucus — ab- 

 domen enlarged — pulse 55, and oppressed. The mare had been 

 ill several days before I saw her. On the second day the dull 

 and heavy appearance was entirely gone, but the pulse 68. 

 The third day the marc appeared in the same dull state as on 



