676 CASE OF GASTRITIS, PERITONITIS, & C. 
pleurisy — eats no food, but drinks gruel voraciously. Fseces soft 
indeed they cannot be otherwise, since no solids are taken — legs 
and ears warm — the jugular veins engorged — the cellular tissue on 
each side of the neck in a gangrenous state, and a discharge of 
highly offensive matter from the punctures in the veins. All hopes 
of his recovery relinquished. Treatment as before. 
10 th. — Pulse 116 — reduced to a skeleton — great prostration of 
strength — staggers when he moves — a great craving for gruel 
— the neck in a terrible state, being completely putrescent, and 
sloughing has taken place, leaving large openings around, into the 
veins ; the submaxillary and facial, quite plugged up with con- 
gested blood, are four times their natural size : looks back — 
eructations are come on again, the disengaged gas being truly 
sickening — fseces soft. Give gentian and gruel — neck treated 
as before. 
11 th. — Pulse 105 — great prostration of strength — does not 
eructate to-day — refuses food, but drinks gruel as greedily as ever 
— breathing quick. It is quite distressing to see him ; he is the 
picture of a very sick horse, and has the appearance of one ema- 
ciated from a three months’ disease, the hideous tyrant fast ap- 
proaching. He had the greatest difficulty to walk from one box 
to another : he was removed into a pure one, as the first stank 
insupportably. 
12 th. — Died. 
Post-mortem appearances , ten hours after death. — Subcu- 
taneous cellular tissue on both sides of the neck mortified, as well 
as the adjoining muscles — jugular veins, from the orifices down- 
wards, extending to the breast, gangrenous and engorged with 
congested blood, resembling squeezed cheese curd tinged pink, 
colour. The coats of both veins were considerably thickened ; the 
upper divisions of the jugulars, and the submaxillary and facial 
veins, distended with black coagulated blood. A deep-seated 
abscess discovered underneath the origin of the semi-membranous 
and tendinous muscles contiguous to the tuberosity of the ischium. 
This however had no reference to the disease, but was connected 
with suppressed strangles, some months before. On cutting open 
the cavity of the abdomen, the intestines, generally, presented a 
healthy aspect, with the exception of the inner lining of the 
caecum, which was inflamed : they contained liquids only. The 
peritoneum on both sides of the abdomen inflamed, thickened, and 
firmly adherent to its walls. Cortical parts of kidneys a little dis- 
coloured — 'liver healthy — spleen and omentum inflamed, the latter 
particularly so, and firmly adherent to the stomach. Bladder 
empty and healthy — stomach quite empty, and part of its peritoneal 
