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but the extremities of a death-like coldness, especially the 

 hind ones. Every now and then the horse would lift his 

 head, and turn towards his flank, as if indicating that there 

 was the seat of pain. I carefully examined the abdomen, 

 and found that the horse flinched and struggled when I 

 pressed on the parietes of the belly, just below the false ribs 

 on the right side. This led me to believe that the pain was 

 at all events in part seated in the liver, the margin of whose 

 right lobe I could of course press upon directly. A warm 

 water enema proved that there was no obstruction to the 

 bowels, as the water was retained ; but when attempts were 

 made to evacuate the rectum, I observed that the straining 

 was attended with intense agony. There was an opening in 

 the submaxillary space that of the abscess which had never 

 been closed. 



I took into consideration the occurrence of strangles 

 attended with fever of inordinate severity; the low, weak 

 state the horse had remained in ; the chances that, with the 

 absence of poultices and free incisions, the abscess in the 

 submaxillary space had not been evacuated so thoroughly 

 as it might have been, and I considered that all the symp- 

 toms were in favour of blood disease, from the introduction 

 of pus in the vessels, and that probably abscesses would be 

 found in the abdominal organs. I thought I might after- 

 wards find inflammation of some of the veins of the body, but 

 did not suspect arteritis. My opinion was decided as to the 

 issue of the case, and recommended the animal to be destroyed ; 

 but as he could not be opened until next morning, and a 

 change in the next few hours might be seen, though medi- 

 cal interference was abstained from, I suggested that the 

 horse should be watched, and next morning I would con- 

 sider how best to act. 



Next morning the animal was found much in the same 



