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of the thighs was also blistered. The drink and the injections 
were continued. 
12 th . — The respiration is more laborious — the eyes weep a 
great deal, and are nearly closed. The animal holds his head 
almost constantly pointing to the left side : the forehead is hot, 
and pressure on it is painful. The mucous membranes are in 
the same state as yesterday, and the appetite is quite gone. 
Sweats are breaking out on the cheeks, the poll, and other parts. 
Neither the setons nor the blisters have taken any effect. The 
animal is now almost always down, or if he gets up his plaintive 
breathing may be distinctly heard. Bleed to nine pounds. The 
blood is of a scarlet colour, with little or no serum. 
At night the pulse could with difficulty be felt, and the beat- 
ings of the heart, although as frequent as before, were much more 
feeble. The fetlock of the left fore leg presented a very singular 
appearance. On the extensor tendon was an enlargement of 
fully the size of a hen’s egg, while the flexor tendons seemed to be 
elongated, so that the foot rested only upon the point of the toe. 
An hour afterwards the animal fell heavily on the ground ; he 
raised himself with pain, and appeared to suffer much ; and 
then, to the great surprise of M. Ollivier, the bearing of the left 
fore leg was on the posterior part of the fetlock, by reason of a 
strange and most abnormal distention of the flexor tendons, 
and which he could only attribute to rupture or gangrene. He 
died in two hours, after the most dreadful struggles. 
He was opened nine hours after death. The muscles that 
covered the cranium were infiltrated with black blood ; it was 
the same with those of the pharynx and of the neck, and also 
of the thyroid glands. There was a slight effusion of blood 
within the cranium, and aLso in the frontal and maxillary sinuses, 
and in the convolutions of the turbinated bones. A certain por- 
tion of spume mixed with the blood in these different cavities, 
and the effusion was much greater on the right side than on the 
left. This might depend, in a great measure, on the side on 
which the horse lay at and after his death. 
The lungs were sound — the heart was apparently much aug- 
mented in bulk. The external investment of the heart exhibited 
large patches of ecchymosis, almost approaching to gangrene. 
The interior lining of the ventricles exhibited the same appear- 
ances. On the pericardium generally there were also traces of 
inflammation. There was a slight degree of redness on the 
mucous membrane of the stomach — the kidneys were enormously 
enlarged, and gangrenous — their substance yielded to the slightest 
pressure, and close to the pelvis of each were several reservoirs of 
purulent matter. 
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