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than on the previous evening. On auscultating the chest 
I heard, in inspiration, a decidedly musical sound on the 
right side, behind the scapula, as if the air in its passage 
rushed suddenly into a cavity, and was then carried to 
a sound portion of the lung. No respiratory sound was 
audible a little below the median line of the chest. On the 
left side the sounds of the heart, which were unusually dis- 
tinct, interfered somewhat with a sort of gurgling noise, of 
which, from this cause, I could make nothing. 
Being an interesting case, I visited the patient several 
times during the day and repeated my examinations, which 
only the more confirmed me in my first diagnosis, viz., that 
organic disintegration of the lungs existed, which was beyond 
the reach of human skill to eradicate. 
On the next, the third, day, the discharge and other symp- 
toms were greatly increased. The anxiety evinced in the 
general demeanour of the animal, the vacant and hopeless 
gaze, drooping head, hurried and oppressed respiration, were 
positively painful to witness. Death terminated the suf- 
ferings of the poor brute in the course of that night. 
Post-mortem appearances . — On cutting into the right lung 
I discovered an abscess, large enough to contain a man's head , 
extending thence into the left lung through the mediastinum. 
The cavity contained a quantity of broken up lung-tissue, 
and no definite line could be traced between the diseased and 
the less affected parts. The lower portion of the right lung was 
also diseased and impervious to the air ; adhesion had like- 
wise taken place between the pleura pulmonalis and pleura 
costalis. All the other portions of the left lung appeared to 
be in a normal condition. 
The heart and abdominal viscera presented nothing re- 
markable. As the journey by sea was not a long one, I 
should suppose that the disease existed at the time of pur- 
chase. 
HAEMOPTYSIS. 
One very hot day in the fall of 1855 I was desired to see a 
pony, reported to be at the point of death. It appeared that 
the animal had been ridden by a burly, inhuman Turk, in 
pursuit of stray mules, who managed after a long race to 
push the poor brute into camp, when it sank exhausted, and 
began bleeding profusely from the nostrils and mouth, the 
breathing being fearfully accelerated and oppressed. Not 
having medical means at hand at the time, I sent to the 
quarter-master’s stores for half-a-pint of “ ration rum,” one 
half of which I administered, mixed with a little water, having 
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