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gulps of water ; then, instantaneously tossing up his head, he 
sprung at the man holding the pail, and came with such violence 
to the end of the halter, that the concussion threw him over 
backwards. This brought on another paroxysm that lasted 
about twenty minutes, when he died, apparently in the most 
excruciating agony. 
Thus terminated a scene that beggared all description ; a 
scene of the greatest mental alienation and bodily agony I ever 
before witnessed in any animal during twenty years’ practice. 
Treatment in a case like this is out of the question. Pro- 
viding it was practicable to administer medicine, my faith is not 
sufficient to induce me to believe that we are possessed of any 
drug that would have the slightest beneficial effect on such a 
disease. I will, therefore, proceed to describe the appearances at 
the post-mortem examination : — On opening the abdomen, the 
bowels and kidneys appeared healthy ; the liver was a good deal 
inflamed, and apparently approaching to a state of dissolution, 
for every part of it might be easily separated with the fingers. 
On opening the stomach, a small portion of brownish coloured 
fluid, and a little quantity of long unmasticated hay and straw, 
swallowed during the paroxysms of nervous excitement, pre- 
sented themselves : the villous coat also had an inflamed surface, 
resembling the fluid in colour ; but inflammation w 7 as more dis- 
tinctly marked on the external than the internal coat. On the 
whole, there was not so much disease in the stomach and ali- 
mentary canal as I expected to find. There was considerable 
congestion in the lungs; but the strongest marks of inflam- 
mation were to be seen about the heart itself, particularly the 
internal parts, both auricles and ventricles, and internal coats of 
the larger vessels, viz. the pulmonary artery and aorta, and 
vessels given off immediately from the principal trunks ; as if the 
blood itself was so contaminated with the poison as to irritate 
and produce disease in the vessels in which it circulated. The 
brain did not exhibit any strong marks of disease: the vessels 
on the left side of the medulla oblongata were turgid and dis- 
tended : at the base of the brain itself there was a slight effusion 
of bloody serum ; the ventricles were healthy, and the brain, al- 
together,- did not exhibit so much disease as might have been 
expected from the extreme nervous irritability and excitement 
that existed during the progress of the disease. The membrane 
lining the epiglottis and internal part of the larynx exhibited a 
vast deal of purple-coloured inflammation, with spots of ecchy- 
mosis : the internal part of the pharynx exhibited a similar ap- 
pearance ; in fact, the whole of the upper part of the mouth and 
fauces were more or less inflamed. These were the principal 
