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however, perceived my mistake. Yet I do not think that the 
means of treatment I adopted had any thing to do with the re- 
pelling of the disease from the joints, and the determination of 
it to the heart ; for I regard this malady as the concomitant of 
gout, and not the effect of its repulsion from the extremities. 
I nevertheless have sometimes thought that the cold applica- 
tions aggravated the mischief. 
As to the affection of the kidneys, I certainly did not recog- 
nize it during the life of the animal ; for the symptoms which 
usually indicate it were either wanting, or exceedingly ob- 
scure, and the urine was voided with ease and in its natural 
quantity. As to the inflammation of the heart, I had certainly 
observed the violent action of that organ ; but it had not very 
seriously fixed my attention ; yet it was not at all rare to find, at 
least in the human being, serious lesions of it connected with 
rheumatic affections. Pinel, in his Nosographie Philoso- 
phique,” relates the case of a man that was attacked with violent 
rheumatism, which, after shifting from limb to limb, finally 
fixed itself in his knees. He made use of cold applications, 
which shortly drove the disease from his limbs to his chest. 
Oppression, syncope, palpitations of the heart ensued, and the 
man died. On examination after death, his heart was found 
pale and softened, but of an enormous size, and adherent to the 
pericardium. I cite this fact in order to shew that the cold 
baths which I employed might have contributed to augment the 
disease of the heart. 
“We think,” say the French editors, “ that we should append 
to this case, full of interest, another, that has come under our 
observation, and that still more strongly illustrates the analogy 
there is between some affections of the articulations in the quad- 
ruped, and rheumatism and gout in the human being.” 
INFLAMMATION OF THE SYNOVIAL MEMBRANES 
OF THE THECiE OF TENDONS, 
COMPLICATED WITH AFFECTION OF THE KIDNEYS AND 
THE HEART. 
By Professor Renault. 
An entire draught horse, four years old, was sent to the Ve- 
terinary Infirmary at Aifort, on the 29th of September, 1836, on 
account of inflammation of the jugular vein after bleeding. There 
was a fistulous opening on the left side, four inches in depth, 
and in a direction from the wound made by the lancet towards 
the parotid gland. The cellular tissue about the vein was in- 
