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HARD TUMOUR IN A MARE. 
pints, when the heart’s action lost its force — gave aloe §ss, 
opii 3 iv, camph. ^ij , in solution, enemas, etc. etc. 
12 th, 6 o’clock, a.m. — Pulse 85. Body generally warm — bow- 
els torpid — she is very restless — pupils more dilated, greater in- 
tolerance of light — the fore legs adducted forward — almost 
continual contractions of the muscles of the breast and shoulders 
— frequently twitching up either leg. Give ol. lini Oss, ol. 
croton 40 gr., opii 3iv; apply oil of cantharides to the spine, and 
throw up copious enemas. 
5 o’clock , p.m. — Pulse 89, or thereabouts ; for she is so un- 
easy, and the tremor of the body so great, that it is difficult to 
take the pulse at all. The body still retains its warmth — the 
mouth stercoraceous — respiration accelerated and stertorous — 
the faeces pultaceous, the blisters acting well. Give opium with 
camphor. 
10 o’clock.— The pulse could not be counted, respiration was so 
quick and stertorous. She has lain down several times for a few 
minutes, and when standing she generally finds some point to 
rest either her head or chest against, throwing nearly the whole 
weight of her body forcibly forward. 
13 th, 3 o’clock, a.m. — Dead. 
Autopsy. — Stomach healthy, containing but little food. The 
intestines distended with considerable flatus and fluid faeces, but 
healthy in structure. The liver and spleen normal — lungs slightly 
congested — heart normal. 
I next carefully examined the whole of the spinal column, 
taking the head off at the dentata, in order to enable me, with a 
better chance of success, in minutely examining the brain, but 
could not find the slightest abnormal appearance in any part of 
the spine. 
Cranium. — Upon making a section of the bones, the ventricles 
of the brain were found to contain about an ounce of dark straw- 
coloured fluid— -the vessels of the brain were much congested. 
Having removed the cerebrum and cerebellum, a firm tubercular 
excrescence, about the size of a walnut, was situated directly 
under the neck, or what anatomists call the crus cerebri of the 
cerebrum. It was firmly adherent to the pericranium, and di- 
rectly anterior to the suture which unites the occipital with the 
cuneiform process of the sphenoid bone. 
