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driver returned home with him. He had scarcely got the animal 
into the stable, when he commenced very greedily eating hay, 
and almost immediately afterwards he began to breathe with great 
violence. 1 was now requested to attend. 
Present State. 
1. Pulse 84 per minute, and jerking. 
2. The respirations are 38 per minute; the animal breathes 
both through his mouth and nostrils ; the neck is extended, 
nostrils expanded, and the mouth wide open. 
3. The inspiratory act is attended with a screaming noise. 
4. The ear, applied along the whole length of the trachea, detects 
also a harsh rasping noise. 
5. Throughout the chest this rasping noise is intermingled with 
a loud blowing noise. 
6. The ribs of the animal work with a violent heaving motion. 
7. The mucous membrane of the nose is of a purple or leaden 
colour. 
8. A frothy kind of spume issues from the mouth and nostrils in 
great abundance. 
9. At times the animal attempts to cough, but, after a straining 
effort, it terminates instead in a kind of dry smothered puffing 
sound. 
10. Occasionally, he turns his nose close to the left side of the 
chest, and regards the side anxiously. 
11. The sides of the neck, sides, and inferior parts of the ab- 
domen, the loins, thighs, head, and fore limbs, are covered with a 
profuse clammy perspiration. 
Treatment , $c. — Various remedies were had recourse to, such 
as spirits of nitre, ammonia, camphor, turpentine, opium, &c., but 
without avail : he continued much in the same condition for many 
hours, until, in fact, about eleven o’clock, when he dropped and 
died. 
Examination ten Hours after Death*. Digestive Organs. — The 
mouth and its contents were all healthy, also the oesophagus, 
stomach, small and large intestines. The stomach contained but 
very little food, and that was in a fluid condition : in the midst of 
this fluid were floating three round worms of an immense size. 
The peritoneum was normal throughout. 
Urinary Organs. — The kidneys were very much softened in 
every part; the left kidney, in fact, was nearly pulpy. The 
ureters and the bladder were normal. 
* During the post-mortem examination of this case, I was kindly assisted 
by Mr. Howell, V.S., now resident, I believe, in Rochdale 
