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the nose a good deal of mucus, mixed with gruel, ginger, &c. (the 
medicine contained ginger, and was given in gruel). Round each 
nostril there was a dry hardened ring of the same material, the 
nose and breath very hot, feet and ears cold, pulse quick and weak. 
I made further inquiries of the other servants about the way the 
medicine had been given, and got the same account as previously, 
and I had now no doubt in saying that a portion of the gruel had 
been recklessly forced into the lungs, and that inflammation of 
these organs was the consequence. I proposed bleeding them. 
Two of them bled moderately well, but the third I was obliged to 
stop with before getting away a pint, in consequence of syncope 
coming on, and in a few minutes it fell and died in that state. 
The fourth I did not bleed ; I, however, advised the grieve to 
separate them from the rest, and put them in a quiet, warm place, 
and blister the throat along the whole course of the trachea ; but 
he did neither of these. In the morning I made a post-mortem 
examination of the two dead animals. In the one that died first 
(in the park), I found a large congested spot on one of the shoulders, 
involving the super and sub-scapular muscles, a state of the parts 
which evidenced quarter-ill of a number of hours standing. The 
lungs were also much congested, and thin black bloody serum ran 
from the mouth and nose. The mucous lining of the trachea and 
bronchi was black and injected to an extreme degree ; and, on cut- 
ting up the bronchi to their terminations, I found numerous clots 
of gruel, particles of oatmeal, sids, and yellow ginger, mixed with 
blood and mucus. There were a few ecchymosed spots under the 
serous covering of the heart, and black uncoagulated blood in its 
cavities on both sides. I examined the alimentary canal from the 
pharynx to the rectum, and could discover no trace of excitement 
or undue vascularity in any part. The contents of the stomach 
were moderately soft, and those of the colon and rectum black, 
foetid, and very unhealthy in appearance. The physic had not 
operated. The other calf (the one that died while being bled) 
presented the same natural appearance of the alimentary canal. 
There was no symptom of quarter-ill, nor were the lungs much 
congested, but the most intense marks of inflammatory action in 
the trachea and bronchi, accompanied, as in the other case, with 
clots of blood, mucus, gruel, ginger, &c. ; and in both sides of the 
heart, and the large vessels of the thorax, a venous uncoagulated 
state of the blood existed. The other three calves were still alive, 
but much distressed for breath and reduced in strength, the inflam- 
matory state of the lungs being evidently gaining ground. I again 
advised the blistering of their throats, and to have them put into 
a warm house by themselves (for all this time they were standing 
in an open court), but no attention was paid to the advice. The 
