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out water and victuals, but tlirough hunger he ate some of the straw he lay on, 

 as they found afterwards on opening his stomach. Next morning they gave 

 him water and bones ; he drank greedily, and ate the bones, bread, and what- 

 ever was given him, seeming perfectly recovered and well all day and the next 

 night, only very thirsty, and a little drowsy, but perfectly gentle. 



About g next morning, they fastened him to a post, and put a rope into his 

 mouth, by which his nose was tied fast to a rail, great care being taken that 

 there should be no rope about his neck so tight, as to hinder his swallowing or 

 his breathing : Dr. M. then have him 3 oz. of the second running, at 3 times, 

 with a horn, such as they drench horses with : he swallowed it with great dif- 

 ficulty, and guggled some up again : to prevent which, he thrust tiie horn a 

 good way down his throat. They then untied him from the post, to see how 

 he could walk, but he instantly reeled, fell down, rolled over and over, dis- 

 charged much urine, and some hard faeces, had no motion to vomit, but drib- 

 bled much, panted, and showed great difficulty of breathing, snuffing up the 

 air witli his nostrils, holding his nose up, as he sat on his breech; for he could 

 not then stand on his hind legs : he often shook his head, as if stung by some 

 fly : he gradually recovered, and in about 20 minutes time could walk about 

 very steadily on all his legs, though he still appeared weakest behind. There- 

 fore imagining he might linger a long time, or perhaps recover entirely, they 

 made him fast again, and gave him 3 oz. more, near half of which he spilt ; 

 and indeed out of the 6 oz. not above 3 or 4 entered his stomach: he gave one 

 terrible loud howl, and sunk down at once, before they could untie him from the 

 post, to see whether he could walk or not. He never offered to rise again, but 

 lay on one side, panted, hung out his tongue, and slabbered much, stretched all 

 four legs out 3 or 4 times, and was quite dead and motionless in about 5 

 minutes. There were no convulsions in the muscles of the neck and hack, 

 nor was his head and tail drawn nearer together, as in the puppy. 



About i- an hour after he was opened, being still warm. The bladder was 

 contracted and empty ; the rectum slightly inflamed, the small guts not 

 distended with wind, but contracted, and almost close ; the bile was evacuated 

 in great quantity into the duodenum, and was very thick, appearing like con- 

 gealed honey ; the gall-bladder was almost empty; but what remained in it was 

 as thick as the other ; to the inside of the gall-bladder there adhered several 

 excrescencies in form and size of lentils, like drops of softish yellow wax : the 

 liver was exceedingly inflamed, and almost livid : the stomach was contracted 

 near the pylorus, and again about 3 inches above it ; some pieces of bone were 

 in it, a good deal of straw, and about 2 oz. of fluid, which smelt strong of the 



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