ON THE INFLUENCE OF NEW BUILDINGS. 
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the mouth was dry and cold — the pulse small, feeble, and soft, and 
presented a peculiar kind of intermission ; but after two or three 
pulsations the respiration was short, or only half an inspiration 
seemed to be executed. 
The contractions of the heart were strongly felt, and even tu- 
multuously so — the skin, was cold — the abdomen painful — the 
hank hard and corded. There were some borborigmi, but they 
were feeble. The emollient lavements which were administered, 
and which were returned almost immediately, had an infectious 
odour. 
What was to be done when the animal seemed to be almost 
dying ] 
The diagnosis was plain. It was a sanguineous congestion and 
an intestinal apoplexy. 
Exciting frictions, hot and dry vesture were spread over the whole 
of the body. After an hour’s friction, the warmth of the skin became 
elevated a little. The pulse feels much better — the contractions 
of the heart are less tumultuous — the respiration is freer — there is 
a slight evacuation of urine, of a deep yellow colour and an oily 
appearance. The horse, however, left at liberty, torments itself 
still more. The colic continues. 
I thought this an opportune period for practising phlebotomy. 
The blood ran in a considerable stream, but it was very black. 
Placed in an ordinary glass, the blood was black and thick, espe- 
cially when in the temperature of the stable. 
Some hours after the bleeding, an improvement was mani- 
fested. The colic had ceased, and every thing seemed to pronounce 
a considerable improvement, and to give promise of its continuance : 
I thought we had triumphed over the evil that we were far from 
abating in the morning. 
At ten o’clock at night there was an evident improvement, and 
in the morning I thought that the animal was out of danger ; but 
it was not to be so, for the implacable and incessant disease con- 
tinued to exercise its ravages, and I found the horse in a desperate 
state at six o’clock in the morning. 
The animal had extreme feebleness — the pulse was small and 
scarcely to be felt — the conjunctiva and the buccal membranes were 
pale — the mouth was dry and cold — the skin also cold — the respi- 
ration short and painless — the contractions feeble and tumultu- 
ous — the dorso-lumbar region insensible — and the walk stagger- 
ing. I could not explain changes such as these after having left 
the patient so well ten hours before. I saw that the close of the 
affair was at hand, yet I wished once more to endeavour to be of 
service. 
The examination took place eight hours after the death of the 
