234 DADD’S VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGERY. 
mucus. He now, 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 
vody is still warm; he is not at all violent, his pain Seing, as it 
were, dull; the abdomen rapidly increasing in size. Nine, P. M.— 
Have seen my patient several times since morning. See no pos- 
cible 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; 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 means was used for his relief, the symptoms continued tc 
increase in severity, and he died at one o’clock, A. M., on the 
fourth. 
Made an examination thirty-six hours after death, the k acker 
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 cecum and colon, but their contents were 
pultacious. The bladder quite empty, and contracted at its cervix 
into firm rugc; 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 med‘cines 
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 foree: hey were of a brick red color, extremely soft, sa 
that they could be squeezed between the fingers like a paste: or 
