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mal live after the rupture has taken 

 place. The peritoneum may show 

 exudation and effusion as the result 

 of the contact with the injecta from 

 the stomach'. 



2. Great nervous prostration. 



3. Increase in frequency and decrease in 



size and strength of the pulse. 



4. Sweating in patches. 



5. Anxious countenance. 



6. Animal lies down and then rises up on 



his forward feet, sitting on his 

 haunches like a dog. 



7. Hurried respiration. 



8. Mucous membranes cyanotic — the cyan- 



osis is due to the nervous prostra- 

 tion, which lessens the heart's action 

 and thus induces the cyanosis. 

 As death approaches, the ears, extremities and nose get cold ; 

 the perspiration is cold ; there is trembling of the muscles, more 

 particularly the caput muscles. Death may take place anywhere 

 from 1/4-20 hours. In the majority of cases it occurs in 2-6 

 hours. The nervous prostration and death from syncope may 

 occur at any time. A sensitive nervous system will collapse 

 quickly from an attack of rupture and the animal will die in 

 half an hour, while a phlegmatic temperament will not show so 

 quick a reaction. One case is recorded as living 50 hours after 

 rupture. 



The symptoms after the rupture has taken place are as fol- 

 lows : 



1. Pain ceases. 



2. Tympanitis ceases. 



3. Sudden cessation of the flatulence. 



In a case where rupture occurs say 18 inches long without 

 any congestion of the lacerated edges, we must conclude that the 

 rupture took place when he fell, and that he died from asphyxia. 

 In such a case you could not say that the rupture killed him, it 

 was the dropping. On the other hand if you find a partial 



