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the coat has stared, and there has been an appearance of mange. 
Alterative powders have been repeatedly given, but the animal 
has not been put on the sick list. To-day he is quite off his 
food, and breathes more laboriously than I have ever before seen 
him. Give four ounces of Epsom salts, and half an ounce of 
nitre in gruel. 
3d . — Decidedly worse, refuses to eat, sadly weak, countenance 
anxious, muzzle cold, heaves laboriously, loses flesh fast. He is 
too much exhausted for bleeding to be of service, and he could 
not bear the ligature. Give halt' an ounce of nitre, and a drachm 
of ginger in gruel. 
4 th . — He died in the night. The abdominal viscera were all 
sound. The lungs exhibited no acute inflammation, but they 
were partially hepatized, and, throughout their whole substance, 
thickly studded with tubercles, some of which were in a state 
of suppuration. With all this there had been scarcely any 
cough ; the appetite had never been impaired until the last day 
or two. The animal would eat every thing that was set before 
him : he frequently ate his own dung. He was always ready to 
use his horns when any one came near him. The only indica- 
tions of disease were, loss of condition — occasional laborious 
breathing, but never violent — scurfiness about the skin — and, very 
lately, a cessation of the growth of the horns. 
An amphibious Animal drowned in his own Element. 
1834. May 2 . — A Seal, well yesterday, and that had caught 
every fish, was, on the return of the keeper, found dead at the 
bottom of his pond. The vessels of the membranes of the brain 
were highly injected. The lungs were congested, but not to any 
great degree, and in the larynx were found four strongyli. It is 
in a manner useless to speculate on the cause of his death : he 
might have been seized with cramp ; or these worms, precisely 
the same as are found in the bronchi of cattle, and often a source 
of dreadful annoyance, might by some sudden movement or con- 
volution have caused him to inhale sufficient water to suffocate 
him in his own element. There was no apparent cause of death. 
A CASE OF POLYPUS IN THE NOSTRIL OF A 
HORSE. 
By Mr. James Sewell, Brighton. 
August 4, 1828. — A cart horse of the Flanders breed, the 
property of Mr. Burgess, of Cubcastle, was brought to me 
labouring under great difficulty of breathing from the submax- 
