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mucus. He nov?, for the first time, drank six or seven swallows 

 of water, but had no desire for food. I ordered a pail of water 

 to be placed before him, and that a man should watch him during 

 the night. 



September 3, six, A. M. — Has drank the water. Still paws, 

 lies down, suddenly rises, paws again, and thus continues. The 

 body is still warm ; he is not at all violent, his pain being, as it 

 were, dull ; the abdomen rapidly increasing in size. Nine, P. M.— 

 Have seen my patient several times since morning. See no pos- 

 sible chance for recovery. His respiration is quick and laborious ; 

 pulse, seventy-four ; visible mucous surfaces highly injected ; head 

 and neck bedewed with a cold, clammy perspiration j tremor of 

 the fore extremities ; still paws, but does not lie down. He puts 

 his nose in the bucket, plays with the water in it, but does not 

 drink. Abdomen appears to increase in size. Notwithstanding 

 every me%ns was used for his relief, the symptoms continued to 

 increase in severity, and he died at one o'clock, A. M., on the 

 fourth. 



Made an examination thirty-six hours after death, the knacker 

 neglecting to remove the horse before. On opening the abdo- 

 men the following appearances were visible : A slight blush of 

 inflammation pervaded the whole of the intestinal canal. Ex- 

 treme distention of the caecum and colon, but their contents were 

 pultacious. The bladder quite empty, and contracted at its cervix 

 ' into firm rugoe ; in substance its walls thickened to half an inch ; 

 its apex bore marks of ulceration, with a rupture of one and a half 

 inches through its parieties. Had it not been ruptured, I think 

 the bladder could not have been made to contain more than a 

 quart ; and we think this condition of the organ is sufficient to 

 account for the constant dribbling spoken of by the groom. There 

 was an accumulation of several gallons of fluid in the abdominal 

 cavity, and the peritoneum bore evident marks of inflammation, 

 which, doubtless, had been rendered less solvent by the medicines 

 administered. The lining membrane of the bladder was clothed 

 with a kind of mucus, thick, muddy, and of a dark color. The 

 kidneys were almost destitute of the investing membrane. What 

 remained rubbed off with the slightest touch. In attempting to 

 remove then: from their connections, they were torn with very 

 little for.-*. They were of a brick red color, extremely soft, so 

 that they nonld be squeezed between the fingers like a paste : or. 



