446 ULCERATION AND SPHACELUS OF THE INTESTINES. 
the symptoms, that strychnia or nux vomica had been the 
agent used at the commencement of the illness, that the 
evacuations were not tested. 
I cannot but think that the second symptoms were, in a 
great measure, the effect of the antimony, as I feel fully per- 
suaded the original poisoning had been successfully combated 
by the hot baths. This, however, is but an opinion. My 
object in laying the case before the readers of your Journal is 
simply to draw attention to the striking benefit the animal 
derived from the effect of the hot bath. 
I may add, that with respect to the dose of strychnia that 
will poison, I have known the sixth part of a grain kill a 
good-sized spaniel dog; and further, that I have observed 
the muscles of the mouth and lips to be the last affected ; and 
at times, as seen in the above case, not at all. Furthermore, 
I have observed in those cases in which dogs have died 
in tetanic convulsions, that the muscles were hard and rigid 
after death, but, in the case I have given, in which the dog 
recovered from the immediate effect of the poison, and after- 
wards sank from exhaustion, the muscles and limbs were 
flaccid and flexible after death. 
ULCERATION AND SPHACELUS OF THE 
INTESTINES OF A MARE. 
By G. Evans, M.R.C.Y.S., Bridgnorth. 
This morning, May 31st, I was called to see an old cart- 
mare, said to have “ belly-ache.” 
History . — This mare, although she never spared herself while 
at work, had been declining for a long time, and was often sub- 
ject to u gripes,” especially during the last wdnter, but she 
always recovered without the administrationof medicine. About 
six weeks ago, being at aestrum, she was sent to the horse, but 
did not do so well afterwards. Yesterday she was put to hard 
work, and looked very unwell last night; she w^as, however, 
turned out to grass with the other horses, and this morning 
was found to be very unwell, suffering much abdominal pain. 
When I saw her, the leading symptoms were a staggering 
gait, and an inclination to prop herself up by leaning against 
the wall of the stable. At times she would get down and sit 
on her haunches. The extremities w-ere cold ; mucous mem- 
branes injected ; and the pulse imperceptible to the feel, 
