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shiverings about the flank and body, coming on from time to time, 
the depression so great that he noticed nothing passing around 
him — the loins insensible — respiration accelerated — inspiration 
short — expiration jerking and trembling — pulse quick and hard — 
conjunctival membrane rather pale — mouth warm and clammy. 
On auscultating the chest, the respiratory murmur was audible 
throughout the whole extent of the cavity ; it was, however, feeble 
towards the inferior portion, particularly at the right side: per- 
cussion also produced an echo throughout; but on the right side 
the animal invariably manifested a great degree of sensibility to 
any pressure exercised on the intercostal spaces, and endeavoured, 
by altering his position and moving his sides, to withdraw himself 
from the touch of the hand. 
These symptoms, in conjunction with those which had been 
observed before, from the time of the formation of the abscess at 
the entrance of the chest, enabled us to disagnosticate acute pleu- 
ritis, consecutive, doubtless, on the inflammatory action of which 
the lymphatic glands which penetrate with the trachea into the 
thoracic cavity had been the seat. 
A similar case had been seen some time previously in a horse 
in which two setons had been inserted under the chest as a remedy 
for inflammation of the principal respiratory passages and bronchi ; 
there had also been in this animal much swelling around one seton, 
and an abscess had formed itself in front of the chest. 
From the very commencement of this second affection the prog- 
nostic became very serious : how could it be otherwise 1 it being 
always so when pleurisy arises from general causes, such as chills, 
sudden arrest of perspiration, &c. 
An energetic revulsive and antiphlogistic course of treatment 
was immediately put in force ; six quarts of blood were taken from 
the jugular, and a large sinapism applied to the chest; strict 
attention to diet, and warm saccharine drinks. 
At four o’clock all the symptoms I have described as indicative 
of the commencement of the disease were become much deve- 
loped : on auscultation there was a manifest absence of all re- 
spiratory sound at the inferior part of the two sides of the chest; 
percussion produced only a dull sound, and the animal evidently 
suffered great pain during the examination. Three more quarts 
of blood were taken ; the swelling induced by the sinapism was 
scarified ; the cautery applied to these scarifications, and a mustard 
poultice again put on. The tumour on the chest had considerably 
diminished in size, and had become softer and less painful to the 
touch; a great quantity of pus, however, continued to be dis- 
charged through the opening of the abscess. 
On the oth the pleural effusion had made such progress that 
death appeared immediate. 
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