REMARKS ON THE LATE EPIDEMIC, THE INFLUENZA. ()15 
food which had escaped into the abdomen filled nearly half a 
bushel. 
The horse stood sixteen hands high, was nearly thorough 
bred, an excellent worker, and, what appears to me strange, he 
had eaten his feeds of hay and every thing in the same manner 
as usual (which was always very well), up to the time he was 
put to the coach, which was about two hours before his death. 
As 1 did not see the horse while he was living, I can say little 
about the symptoms, except from the groom’s statement, from 
which it would seem that there were only the ordinary ones of 
violent colic. How can I account for the difference between the 
symptoms and the extensive lesions and decomposition of the 
stomach, which certainly must have dated its commencement a 
considerable time previous to death ? It was literally so much 
decayed, that I could not recognize more than one-half of its 
natural proportions or substance ; and yet the horse ate as well 
two hours before death as he had done at any previous time. 
This somewhat puzzles me. Was the decomposition of the 
stomach the effect of the cantharides, &c., which entered into 
the composition of the liquid blister, acting gradually on its 
mucous membrane? and if so, why were there not any decisive 
symptoms of so extensive and important a lesion? The rupture 
in the colon I can well understand. It appeared to have been 
the effect of an ulcer eating through the muscular coats, as the 
edges of the orifice were in a state of ulceration, to a less degree, 
for two inches round ; and this state of the colon, probably, was 
the effect or cause of the former attacks of colic, or might be 
occasioned by the Spanish flies, &c. : but how the horse could 
live, eat, work, and keep his condition (for he was very fat, and 
fine in his coat) under these circumstances, is to me, what the 
French would say, tine merveille. 
Agreeably to a request of Mr. Hayes, we will make a few 
observations on this case in the next number of The Veteri- 
narian ; and, in the meantime, some of our correspondents 
may, probably, furnish us with the history of similar lesions. 
REMARKS ON THE LATE EPIDEMIC, THE 
INFLUENZA. 
By Mr. Jos. Carlisle, Wigton. 
Mr. Editor, — You may probably deem it presumption on 
my part to attempt to make any remarks on that dangerous and 
