CASE OF G ASTRO-ENTERITIS IN THE HORSE. 47 L 
him about two hours after Mr. Gabriel saw him this morning, 
although he then followed him round the box evidently possessing 
the faculty of sight, I found him to have complete amaurosis in 
both eyes. 
3 P.M. — The purging has increased with considerable violence, 
tympanitis gradually decreasing — he has no appetite, and drinks 
but sparingly of his gruel. He was ordered to have mucilaginous 
draughts, and to be horned with thick gruel. 
20 tli, 9 A.M. — Pulse 108. Notwithstanding the most active 
treatment, in order to controul the violence of the purging, it still 
continues — tympanitis entirely removed. He is getting very 
weak — did not lie down last night — reels if he attempts to move, 
and shews great debility. 
21s£, 11 A.M. — This morning there is a remission of all the vio- 
lent symptoms ; but they have disappeared to admit of the pre- 
sence of others, which, although they are not of so alarming a cha- 
racter to the bystander, yet to the veterinary surgeon’s experienced 
eye tell a tale easily understood. His eyes, although they are 
still perfectly insensible to light, have a brighter appearance, and 
he has by the movements of his ears an evident desire to know 
what is passing around him. His coat looks well, and his extre- 
mities are not so intensely cold ; but the appetite is entirely gone, 
and his pulse is almost imperceptible and very quick. He has 
not lain down since Monday night. 
He continued to remain in this state until the evening, when 
there was a total relapse. His breathing became very laborious 
and quick — he stood with his legs projecting, or staggered almost 
to falling if he attempted to shift his position. I left him about 
eight o’clock in the evening, evidently dying. 
In the morning of the 22d, he was found dead ; and it seemed to 
all appearance, from the position in which he was lying, that he 
fell and expired without a struggle. 
Post-mortem examination . — On removing the intestines from 
the cavity of the abdomen, they presented an appearance of intense 
inflammation throughout their whole extent. On laying open the 
stomach and exposing its inner surface, there was found, situated 
near to its pyloric orifice, a large unhealthy-looking ulcer, which 
evidently, from the callous condition of its surrounding margin, was 
not of very recent formation. Rupture of this viscus must shortly 
have taken place, as its coats in this particular part were so thin 
as to admit of being very easily torn. On our investigations being 
carried farther into the intestinal tube, there were found, situated 
on the internal surfaces of both the large and small intestines, an 
immense quantity of ulcers of a minute size, which, by coalescing, 
had formed broad ulcerated surfaces, ragged, and in some parts 
