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A CASE OF APOPLEXY IN A HORSE. 
and with his head underneath an iron manger, against which, every 
time the fit came on he dashed his poll and orbital projections with 
cruel violence, contusing and wounding his head sadly, I had him, 
by means of ropes, turned, or rather dragged over — the stall being 
too narrow to admit of turning him round — into the gangway of 
the stable, previously thickly littered for his reception. There he 
lay comfortably, without much chance of his doing himself harm 
in his struggles, and, moreover, now we could get at him without 
danger. His stertorous breathing had abated, though it continued 
sonorous and quickened, and his pulse, though frequent and strong, 
had lost its jerking. I opened the opposite temporal artery, suf- 
fered the blood to flow in an ample stream, until the pulse grew 
weak and began to falter : I then stopped the bleeding. How 
much blood was lost either on this or on the former occasion I can- 
not say : at a rough guess, I should suppose hardly less than four 
gallons, altogether, could have flowed. At the end of the bleeding, 
we heard no noise, except that of mere puffing in the respiration, 
which had now become weaker than before, owing probably to the 
loss of blood ; and his fits, though more frequent, had lost all that 
frantic, delirious character they assumed in the first instance. In 
fact, consciousness had evidently returned. He opened his eyes a 
little, disclosing a rolling of the globe, and a pupil contracted and 
irritable, as it seemed, to the light ; he now also moved his jaw, 
which he had not been observed to do before, his mouth having 
been all the while open, but fixed. About this time he had several 
rigors ; after which his skin and extremities, and mouth likewise, 
became warm, shewing that re-action was quickly succeeding. He 
had had one enema administered to him immediately after the first 
blood-letting ; I now ordered another : neither, however, brought 
away any thing but some scanty liquid dung. I also ordered his 
body to be covered over with thick blankets, his legs to be flannel- 
bandaged, his head to be left uncovered, and to have basins-ful of 
cold water dashed upon his forehead and temples, and afterwards 
have those parts kept covered with linen cloths wetted with an eva- 
porating lotion. It would have been not only useless, but, I con- 
ceive, dangerous, to attempt to administer medicine to him in his 
present state. No notice is taken by him of any thing — neither food 
nor water in any form attracted the slightest ; nor did he move his 
tongue, or lips, or jaws when any water was poured through the 
lower part of his mouth. On these accounts I say he was not in a 
condition to swallow any thing. The only means of conveying 
medicine into his stomach with any safety appeared to be the sto- 
mach pump ; but of what avail would medicine be in the stomach of 
an animal in his present state 1 None whatever. 
S o'clock, P.M. — He has been dozing a good deal since my last 
