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as before. His respiration becomes quick and short, the bowels 
are costive, the dung being either black and covered with slime, or 
dry and clay-coloured. The urine is also made in small quanti- 
ties, and changed in colour and consistence. The tongue is foul 
and clammy, and not unfrequently swelled. The breath in two 
horses, whose death evidently was caused or hastened by bleeding, 
acquired so offensive a smell, that I could hardly go near them. 
I have also, in damp low situations, and particularly in the centre 
of Ireland, observed a swelling of the head to accompany those 
symptoms. The ears are usually cold and bedewed with a 
clammy sweat, and the temperature of the body is variable ; but 
the most prominent feature in this disease is the rapid tendency to 
weakness. If not soon relieved, he may become affected with 
inflammation of the lungs or pleura, inflammation of the heart, 
and, which is a very common occurrence, inflammation of the 
kidneys or bladder; and an effect which I have frequently witnessed 
at the decline of the disease is inflammation of the synovial mem- 
brane of the joints. But, as I think you would rather have a case 
from the regimental records than from my book of private 
practice, I will take the last scenes and post-mortem appearances 
from Case 56, No. 8 of 3d Troop. The mare was admitted 
to hospital on the 20th of June, but from that day to the 30th 
did not eat so much as a mouthful of hay. 
June 28 /A. — Affected with extreme nausea and abdominal pains ; 
her pulse quick and thready, but until this day it continued soft 
and feeble ; her respiration has become deep and jerking, eye dull, 
lid infiltrated, and she seems quite to give up all hopes of her 
own recovery. Her extremities are not cold, though the ears are 
bedewed with a clammy sweat. The dung, which is hard and 
covered with slime, has a most offensive smell. The tongue is 
foul and clammy, and the breath tainted. She is very restless — 
pawing, getting up and down frequently, grinding her teeth, look- 
ing at her flanks, and, if offered food or drink, throws up her lip 
with disgust. 
29/A. — The abdominal pain still continues, and I find it rather 
increasing |every time I drench her ; but the hot flannels give 
her considerable relief. She will drink nothing but what she is 
drenched with, and her bowels are yet costive. 
30/A. — Fell down, her hind extremities having become para- 
lyzed, and after two hours of extreme suffering she died. 
Post-mortem . — The lining membrane of the oesophagus slightly 
inflamed, but the vascular membrane of the stomach was very 
red. What appeared to me rather strange was, that there were 
five or six bots attached to it, and only two to the cuticular coat. 
