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A CASE OF SUB-PERITONEAL HEMORRHAGE. 
without adding inconveniently to their bulk, or destroying their 
symmetry. Through the intervention of tendon, for example, mus- 
cles situated in the arm flex and extend the foot. Had there been 
no tendon or sinew, the fleshy parts of the muscles must have 
been continued to the foot, thereby rendering the leg an awkward- 
shaped appendage, as large round, or nearly so, as the arm itself : 
the “ back sinews,” as the flexor tendons are commonly called, are 
stout firm cords attaching the flexor muscles — forming the poste- 
rior part of the arm — to the pasterns and foot. The more promi- 
nent and perceptible they are to the grasp of the finger and thumb, 
the “ better” in kind we reckon them to be ; and it is, perhaps, as 
good a criterion of their quality as we can have, that they “ stand 
out well” from the cannon bone, feel tense, and hard, and clean, and 
perceptibly distinct from another cord, between them and the bone, 
the suspensory ligament , and that the leg altogether, below the 
knee, measures much in breadth and much in circumference, 
A REMARKABLE CASE OF SUB-PERITONEAL HEMOR- 
RHAGE, AND RUPTURE OF THE STOMACH AS A 
CONSEQUENCE, WITH OBSERVATIONS. 
By Pearson B. Ferguson, Esq., Attachee to the British 
Embassy at Paris , fyc. 
An aged grey horse having a disease a little anterior to the 
region of the withers, caused by unsuitable harness, was placed 
under treatment on the 20th of September. Finding the nature 
of the malady grave, it was deemed necessary to have recourse to 
an operation, which being performed, the wounds were dressed 
according to their exigencies, and the case continued to go on 
favourably, the general health being good, up to the 5th of Oc- 
tober ; in the evening of which latter day, he evinced symp- 
toms of acute intestinal pain. These symptoms, however, became 
abated after he had received an opiate draught, with the other 
attentions usual under similar circumstances; and he was, there- 
fore, left apparently tranquil for the night. 
On entering the stable on the following day, the symptoms 
were found to be again present, — the pulse quick and hard and 
the respiration quick: it was, therefore, thought advisable to 
detract some blood, which being done to the amount of fourteen 
pounds, enemas were prescribed, and also 3 ii of opium in solu- 
tion, followed in two hours by a draught composed of aloes sol. 
