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TUMOUR IN THE ABDOMEN, 
until the 2d of July. He came up perfectly sound, and continues 
so at the present time. I believe that he has scarcely had a 
day’s rest since that period. 
TUMOUR IN THE ABDOMEN, AND HYPERTROPHY 
OF THE HEART. 
% Mr. J. D. Har r ison , Lancaster . 
On the (ith of January 1835, I was requested to visit the sub- 
ject of the following case : — An aged bay coach horse, nearly 
sixteen hands high, very thin in condition, on that morn- 
ing had, for the first time, refused his accustomed feed. On 
seeing him, the first thing that attracted and finally arrested my 
attention was, a very peculiar expression of the eye, combined 
with a melancholy shaking of the head, and a countenance in 
which distress was forcibly pourtrayed : it was wild, haggard, 
and pitiable ; and the remembrance of it will not be easily obli- 
terated. Upon examination, the body and extremities were of a 
genial warmth ; the fseces of a harder consistence than natural, 
and in very small lumps; respiration not at all accelerated; but 
the pulse 73, soft, and the sub-maxillary artery yielding at the 
slightest pressure, and conveying an idea to the mind that the 
regular quantity of blood was not, through some unknown cause, 
circulating throughout the system. There was a slight nasal dis- 
charge, colourless and inodorous ; but the pituitary membrane 
was not even in the most trifling degree injected, neither was 
there cough, or any soreness from pressure about the larynx or 
fauces : in fact, there did not exist one solitary symptom indica- 
tive of inflammatory action. In the absence of this I did not feel 
justified in abstracting more blood, the horse-keeper having bled 
the animal to the amount or four or five quarts previous to my 
visit; I therefore, under the hope that some more prominent 
symptom would exhibit itself for my better guidance, contented 
myself with administering aloes vulg. ext. 3 ii, pulv. antim. tart. 
3 i, pulv. potassae nit. 3 iii, in a bolus. 
In the evening I found no amendment. There was still the 
melancholy, anxious countenance, and the breathing a little 
quickened. The pulse had increased five or six beats, and was 
stronger, which induced me again to open a vein ; but, although 
I made a very large orifice, the blood came very slowly, and I 
had not obtained two quarts before I was obliged to desist, or 
syncope would have supervened. 
It may not be irrelevant here to state, that, during the time the 
blood was flowing, the horse by a sudden jerk of his head caused 
