PLEURO-PNEUMONY AND RUPTURED STOMACH. 17 
About eleven o’clock at night we left him, and all seemed well ; 
but on the following morning he was very uneasy. He had 
been tumbling about the stable, and had nearly pulled off all 
his clothes. He was not at all swollen, nor was he purging. 
I gave him anodynes at intervals, but they did him no good. On 
the contrary, he became worse and worse. Occasionally, about 
half a pint of some dark-coloured fluid, mixed at times with 
masticated grass, &c. rose up the oesophagus, and issued through 
his nostrils. 
There appeared no violent act in this vomition, but a simple 
regura-itation, and this continued until within a short time of his 
death, which took place about 5 p.m. 
The symptoms in the course of the day were in a great mea- 
sure those of enteritis, such as getting up and immediately 
lying down — rolling over — occasionally pawing with his fore 
feet — looking at his sides, but especially at the off one — wan- 
dering about the box — looking very anxious — voiding a great 
deal of flatus, and, as death approached, excessive perspiration 
— the nostrils much reddened, and increased respiration. As his * 
end approached, the respiration became more calm; until, after 
standing for some time, he suddenly fell down, struggled vio- 
lently, and died in dreadful agony. About two o’clock the next 
day, Mr. W. Jones, a trainer, from Delamere Forest, and who 
had the horse for the season, Mr. Dunn, V.S., and myself, 
made a 
Post-mortem examination . — He was not excessively swollen. 
On cutting open the abdomen, we immediately discovered that 
there was a rupture, and that a portion of masticated food was 
interspersed amongst the intestines, and entangled in the omen- 
tum. On removing the stomach, we found that on one of its sides, 
near the greater curvature, there was a rupture of the peritoneal 
tunic, of at least a foot in length ; but the opening through the 
other coats was not above two inches in length. In other respects 
the stomach was perfectly healthy, and there were not above 
six pounds of soft masticated food in it, and there was but little 
that had escaped into the abdomen. The intestines were some- 
what inflamed, but not to any great degree. The thorax was then 
examined : each side of it contained about three quarts of serum, 
but there were no adhesions, and but few marks of inflammation 
on the surface of the pleura. The lungs were a little congested 
in a few places. All the other parts of the body were sound. 
Observations . — This case gives rise to a few observations that 
may not, perhaps, be all unprofitable, as I had the animal in my 
own stable. In the first place, l am inclined to think that it 
was a case of pleuro-pneumony, but assuming on the next day, 
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