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18//i. — The symptoms plainly indicated inflammation of the 
sheaths of the tendons. That inflammation became daily more 
intense, and spread to all four feet, so that the horse could 
scarcely stand ; and when, after being down, he endeavoured to 
get up again, he evidently suffered excruciating torture. 
Symptoms of other disease, independent of that in his joints, 
were now clearly developed. He was continually endeavouring 
to void his urine, which was in small quantity, thick and yel- 
low, and he shrunk from pressure on the loins. The beatings of 
the heart became violent, and the hair was detached with the 
slightest effort. 
21 st . — The suppuration from the wound ceased, and the 
wound itself was nearly healed. 
23 d . — The animal died, exhibiting every symptom of intense 
fever. 
The digestive tube, the liver, and the spleen, presented nothing 
unusual. 
The kidneys were very much enlarged, and their tissue, more 
friable than in its natural state, contained many streaks of blood 
scattered through their cortical substance. When they w r ere cut 
and pressed, a considerable quantity of fluid resembling mingled 
blood and urine escaped. The ureters presented nothing re- 
markable ; the bladder contained a pint and a-half of thick vis- 
cid red urine, holding in suspension numerous white mucous 
flocculi. The mucous membrane of the bladder was sound. 
There was nothing remarkable about the lungs. 
The envelopes of the heart were perfectly sound. The right 
ventricle contained a large dense fibrous clot. The left ventricle 
was filled with black blood, and had many ecchymoses on 
the lining membrane. The larger vessels of the heart presented 
no alteration. All that portion of the jugular vein which had 
been the seat of suppuration and ulceration was obliterated and 
cicatrized ; but there were some black clots in the branches near 
the origin of the jugular at the parotid gland, yet there was no 
inflammatory lesion on the lining membranes of these venous 
branches. 
There was considerable enlargement above the fetlock, in the 
direction of the tendons. The sheaths of the tendons exhibited 
traces of acute inflammation, and within them were adhesions in 
the form of bands, and other false membranes. The fluid con- 
tained within the sheaths was of the consistence of the lees of 
wine, somewhat grumulous, but without any unpleasant smell. 
The inflammation extended above the sheaths of the tendons, and 
the inter-tendinous and inter-muscular cellular texture was infil- 
trated by a yellow and gelatinous serosity. In the right hind- 
leg, although the infiltration extended considerably above the 
