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MYSTERIOUS ABDOMINAL DISEASE. 
the respiration to as many and more ; the poor animal was 
nursed during the day, and throughout the night ; and me- 
dicine was administered every hour, all without causing any 
change. 
5a.m. — I saw my patient again; symptoms more 
violent than the day before ; rigors were present ; the skin 
however was dry. At this examination, I was led to believe 
that an abscess was forming internally ; the pulse kept up, 
and there was much thirst, he drank immoderate quantities 
of cold water, and would play with the water for more than 
an hour together. Finding that my list of medicines were 
fast failing, I tried the use of Plumbi Acetas : this I gave in 
small and frequent doses, with water, which in a few hours 
gave great relief. At this time, noon, the bowels were con- 
stipated, to overcome which I administered small doses ofOl. 
Lini, in combination with the Plumbi Acetas. We pro- 
gressed favorably with our patient up to the 19th, when I 
sent him home with instructions to walk him down to me 
daily. Still, there was something unaccountably strange in 
the case ; the appetite all this time was bad ; constipation 
present ; unless oil was administered nothing would pass the 
bowels. The pony continued in the same uncertain state 
up to the 25th. He was led down to the stable with a return 
of the old symptoms, but in a worse form. The secretions 
had almost entirely ceased to act ; the eyes became amaurotic ; 
the skin moist and cold, &c. Matters grew worse and worse, 
and I allowed nature to take its course. On the evening of 
the 26th he died. 
The following morning I proceeded to examine the state of 
the parts w ithin. The intestines were very slightly inflamed in 
patches ; upon the colon I discovered a sac about the size 
of a pig’s bladder; I cut into it and found about a pint of 
dirty looking fluid ; half of the sac w r as fleshy, and tw T o inches 
thick, the other half the thickness of the stomach; it w r as 
w ell supplied w ith blood-vessels, and appeared to have been 
a long time grow ing ; the kidneys seemed to have been par- 
tially absorbed ; the liver was dark coloured and easily torn ; 
the spleen darker than natural ; the stomach easily torn by 
the finger, very pale, and almost all around the cuticular mem- 
brane, close to the junction of the tw 7 o membranes, w T ere 
numerous erosions , which were not unlike those produced by 
the action of Acid. Arsenios, or Hyd. Bichlor. ; the lungs were 
congested ; the heart healthy and firm ; there w r as no ecchy- 
mosis in the heart; the parotid duct on the left side was 
obliterated at the angle of the jaw ; the duct large, up as high 
as the gland ; it held about of fluid resembling inspis- 
