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directed a bran mash to be given, which he seemed to enjoy, and 
soon afterwards I left him in what I considered a fair state of 
recovery. 
15/A, Ten o'clock , A.M. — Considerably improved ; pulse 46, and 
respirations 15 per minute. A slight heaving motion is still pre- 
sent with the ribs; he has not lain down, eats very well, has 
dunged and urinated freely : cough somewhat troublesome oc- 
casionally. The following to be mixed with lini pulv. beat into 
a mass with palm oil, and afterwards divided into six balls, one 
of which is to be given to the animal every morning : — 
R Potass, nitratis Jiss 
Camphor 3vj 
Antim. tart Jj 
I also directed the owner to feed the horse for some days upon 
soft food, consisting of bran, boiled oats and linseed, and, as he w’as 
not very busy with farm work, to allow the animal all the rest he 
could. I did not hear any thing more of my patient until the 
morning of the 30th, or fifteen days afterwards ; when a messenger 
came, about eleven o’clock, to again request my attendance : he 
told me that the horse had rested from the 15th until this morning, 
when he was put to a little light work ; and that, after working 
about half-an-hour, he suddenly commenced in the old way, and he 
was afraid that the horse would be dead before I could possibly get 
there, to render any assistance. I found his state, upon my arrival, 
to be precisely similar to the state which I have previously detailed : 
this time, however, every means which I resorted to failed to yield 
any benefit. The animal died about eight o’clock in the evening. 
Examination fifteen Hours after Death. Digestive Organs . — 
The mouth and its contents, the oesophagus, the stomach, the small 
and large intestines, were all perfectly healthy in every part. The 
liver was firm, and good in colour; the kidneys, the ureters, and 
the bladder, were likewise perfectly healthy. 
Organs of the Chest, fyc. — The lungs were next very carefully 
examined, but every portion of the pulmonary structure was found 
to be beautifully perfect; the organs were very much congested, 
but nothing more. I next slit the trachea superiorly along its whole 
length, or from the larynx to its bifurcation. The tube of the trachea 
contained large masses of thick tenacious mucus, and a great quan- 
tity of frothy spume ; the bronchial tubes contained masses of the 
same substance : it was in examining these mucous masses that 
I accidentally perceived a globule, as it were, of purulent matter 
lying upon the mucous membrane of the trachea, a little above 
where the trachea bifurcated ; and upon washing the part, and 
feeling upon the surface of the membrane, I detected a distinct 
fluctuation under the finger. To remove the superior extremity of 
the trachea, and to close the ring of the lower portion, was the 
