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SUDDEN DEATH OF A VALUABLE BROOD MARE. 
The mare remained tolerably quiet all the remainder of the 
day, and when I left her at nine o’clock, P.M., the pulse appeared 
to be of its natural character. The mare drank some gruel, but 
ate scarcely any thing. 
About two o’clock in the afternoon of the 5th, she appeared dull, 
which was attributed to sickness from the physic. I saw her at 
nine o’clock, P. M., and found the pulse quick, and difficult to be 
felt — the breathing increased and increasing, and the mare restless. 
I abstracted two quarts of blood, and gave three drachms of aloes. 
Two hours afterwards she became very bad, and the pulse was 
scarcely perceptible. I saw that the case was hopeless. She died 
about two o’clock, A. M., on the morning of the 6th. 
On examination, I found the right lung engorged with black 
blood, and all the intestines inflamed, as was the peritoneum — the 
bladder was perfectly sound — the uterus black through its whole 
extent, but not the inflammation or mortification which I expected. 
The liver had a baked appearance, and could be easily torn. Part 
of it was yellow or clay-coloured — the kidneys were inflamed — the 
bowels full of wind and water : their contents, which were very 
considerable, were all softened, and, in the stomach, were fluid. 
I met with a case of this some time ago, which proved to be fatal. 
I could wish to glean the experience of others; but there are few 
cases of this nature reported in The VETERINARIAN. 
The herdsman, who took care of Taglioni last season said that 
he often heard her stamping her hind legs against the pavement 
for half an hour, or more, at a time. After drinking, she would 
paw and scrape, first one leg, and then the other, and often stamp 
violently with the hind foot. 
Her last produce was a crooked-faced filly, and also somewhat 
deformed in the croup; but these deformities gradually disappeared, 
I have taken The VETERINARIAN from its commencement, and 
will continue to do so as long as it may be published, convinced 
that it has openly and honestly done its duty in the service of the 
biped and the quadruped. It may have injured dolts and puzzled 
quacks. So much the better. The gold is only known by its 
being tried. 
A CASE OF ACUTE RHEUMATISM IN A HORSE. 
By Mr. MONDAY, Northwich. 
Dear Sir, — I ACKNOWLEDGE myself deeply indebted to you and 
Mr. Percivall for your very kind opinions on the case of paralysis, 
with regard to which I wrote to you. The result and particulars 
