POISONING OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 
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and look at one of his (stallion) asses, which had showed 
illness that very morning. I found the animal depressed, 
retiring to the further end of his stable into the darkest 
corner of it; sometimes he lay down. The conjunctivae were 
reddened ; the pulse small and very quick ; the pulsations of 
the heart strong ; the respiration embarrassed — if one might 
judge from the dilated nostrils and the acceleration of the 
motions of the flanks. The treatment pursued was antiphlo- 
gistic. The animal was bled twice, had sinapisms applied 
to his chest, and two setons inserted into his breast. The 
animal died after suffering sixty hours. 
Autopsy , — Stomach uniformly red, and covered with nu- 
merous black ecchymoses , standing prominently out from the 
surface of the mucous membrane ; the mesenteric glands had 
turned black, were gorged with blood, and double their 
natural volume. The heart presented large ecchymoses in 
the interior of its ventricles. The lungs w x ere gorged with 
black blood, and appeared in some few places as though 
hepatized. My opinion was, that the case w 7 as one of car- 
buncular ( charbonneuse ) fever. 
On the 7th of February following, another ass fell sick. 
I was called again. It presented the same symptoms as 
the foregoing. Believing in the presence of a carbuncular 
affection, I modified my treatment ; which I now rendered 
tonic, with light venesections (for this is the practice ordina- 
rily pursued in such affections). Death followed in forty- 
eight hours. Autopsy w 7 as made, and the same appearances 
found. 
At ten, on the 25th of June, the third ass fell ill ; present- 
ing the same symptoms as the first tw 7 o, and progressed the 
same in spite of all l did. During the illness of this last 
animal, I observed a reddish-brownness of the buccal mem- 
brane, remarkably about the gums, between the incisor teeth. 
The conjunctivae had a reddish tinge ; and the pulsations of 
the heart w 7 ere so loud that they could be heard at a distance. 
I desired to have the assistance of another veterinarian in 
the dissection of this animal. 
The ecchymoses detached in relief from the uniformly red- 
dened bottom of the stomach, varied in size from a tw r o-franc 
to that of a three-franc piece. The large intestine (colon ?) 
was reddened and thickened, and showed in places large 
ecchymoses, involving the entire substance of the mucous 
coat, dow r n to the muscular tunic. The liver and spleen 
presented nothing remarkable. It was evident enough 
these lesions were the cause of death ; but what could have 
produced them? Upon this question we found ourselves posed; 
