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minute, and very weak, but it had lost its intermittence. The 
respiration still remained from 14 to 16 per minute, and was 
performed by a remarkable effort of the abdominal muscles, the 
same as in asthma. The contractions of the heart were stronger 
on the right side than before. The sensibility at the region of 
this organ had ceased. On the other hand, the dull respiratory 
murmur had increased. These symptoms rendered the diagnosis 
as to organic disease of the heart more certain. Digitalis and 
calomel were now prescribed, and continued for some time, but 
without any good effect resulting; for, after a time, all the 
above described symptoms returned with increased intensity, 
and terminated in sudden death, as the colt was being led back 
from the watering-trough. 
The obduction shewed the heart of extraordinary size. The 
right auricle and ventricle were enormously distended, and filled 
with black venous blood. On a more careful examination, the 
parietes were found to be very thin, the whole forming a sort 
of pouch, which, on being measured, was found to contain nine 
quarts (German) of water. The left auricle and ventricle were 
of the normal size. 
Magazin fur die Gesammte, Thierheilkunde , Berlin , 1850. 
THE VETERINARIAN, JANUARY 1, 1851. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
If the Spring of the year has its “ Derby,” Midsummer its 
“ Steeple Chace,” and Autumn its “ St. Leger,” Christmas can 
boast of its “ Cattle Show and this last exhibition is one 
which, like its predecessors of far older date, can boast of not 
palling the public appetite, or even of diminishing in attractive- 
ness, from repetition. A good deal of sameness runs through 
all these and similar spectacles ; nor do we believe that the Cat- 
tle Show in this respect possesses much advantage over its 
fellow annuals ; though the late Show has proved some excep- 
tion to this in its increased dimensions, as well as in the im- 
proved quality of the exhibitants, as will appear from the 
following account extracted from “ The Times — 
“ The exhibition has in former years been blemished by a display of 
enormously fat and overgrown animals. Prizes were awarded, and admira- 
tion bestowed, not upon those beasts that at the earliest age, and in the 
