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ing of the 19th, however, I was again requested to attend upon 
her, when I found her as follows : — Pulse 84 and respiration 22 
per minute ; the mucous membrane of the nostrils is of a leaden 
hue; the sores on the limbs are nearly healed ; limbs not swollen, 
except the hind ones, which are enlarged from the hocks down- 
wards. Swellings, however, exist on the anterior part of both 
scapulas, also over the lumbar region, and for a short distance 
along the course of the spine. She moves in a very rigid manner : 
the eyes have a dull lifeless aspect; appetite completely gone; 
she has not, in fact, eaten anything for the last twelve hours. 
Altogether she appears in a transition state, or as passing from 
life into death. I immediately had recourse to diffusible stimu- 
lants, and I gave her spts. of nitre, ammonia, and brandy ; but all 
without avail. On the morning following she was dead : she died 
about two o’clock, A.M. 
Examination , nine hours after death . — On taking off the skin, 
I observed in those parts where the swellings existed that the cel- 
lular tissue was filled with a cinnamon-coloured coagulum ; these 
appearances were presented in the cellular tissue about the shoulders, 
the neck, the loins, the thighs, and the transverse processes of the 
ileum : after a short exposure to the air some of these deposits be- 
came changed to a black colour. This blackness I found to extend 
itself into the muscles : it did not stain the muscular tissue uni- 
formly : the black colour existed, as it were, in large blotches, the 
depth of which into the muscular substance was about an inch, 
or from that to an inch and a half. The muscles occupying the 
lumbar region were thickly mottled with these dark stains ; they 
existed also within the substance of the following muscles : — viz. 
the levator humeri, upon a portion of the antea spinatus, upon 
the longissimus dorsi, and the muscles situated immediately under- 
neath ; upon the gluteus maximimus, tensor vaginae, and also upon 
the extensor metacarpi magnus. On dividing the abdominal mus- 
cles a layer of the cinnamon-coloured coagulum was exposed ; this 
layer extended the whole length of the abdomen, and its uniform 
thickness was about half an inch ; it also extended itself behind 
the internal oblique muscles ; but, what is worthy of remark, the 
abdominal muscles themselves were free from the black stains so 
common to the others. Those muscles and portions of muscles free 
from stains were so pale in colour and soft in texture as to resemble 
veal more than horse-flesh. 
Abdominal Viscera. — The intestines were healthy to all appear- 
ance, but very pale in colour ; the lacteals were distended with 
chyle ; the stomach was filled with portions of hay and mash in a 
half-digested state ; the internal surface was healthy, but pale ; the 
liver was also of a pale colour, soft in its structure, and when broken 
