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A CASE OF ENDOCARDITIS, &C. 
seized upon every thing that he could grasp within his teeth. 
This continued more than an hour, when a general exhaustion 
began to shew itself. When he attempted to get up, he drew 
with pain his hinder limbs after him, and when he was upon his 
legs he vacillated from side to side at the slightest impulse. 
The paralysis was more confirmed as death approached. 
Between ten and eleven o’clock he was extended on his flank, 
his fore-limbs continually agitated — attempting in vain to rise — 
and dreadfully tearing his arms and legs. At length the pulse 
began to falter — the beating of the heart became irregular — his 
features rapidly shrunk, and at eleven o’clock he died. 
Autopsy. — Some red points presented themselves on the 
mucous membrane of the stomach and the surface of the spleen . — 
The mucous membrance of the duodenum was of a vivid red, in 
the neighbourhood of the pylorus. There was considerable tur- 
gescence of the folds of the pharynx. The mucous crypts were 
large and highly injected. There were ecchymoses on and under 
the membrance of the heart . The bladder was about half filled. 
The plexus chordides were injected, and there was a little light- 
coloured fluid in the right ventricle of the brain. There was 
nothing amiss in the spinal chord or its membranes. 
[This narrative is introduced not as containing any thing abso- 
lutely new, but for the sake of comparison with the same 
disease in our country. — Y.] 
A CASE OF ENDOCARDITIS. ULCERATION OF THE 
INTESTINAL MEMBRANE OF THE HEART. 
By M. Mercier, M.V., a Evreux. 
The patient was an entire horse, three years old, and of a 
sanguine temperament. It had been three months in the posses- 
sion of the owner, and had always been well fed. The occurrence 
of phlebitis following a bleeding from the jugular rendered his 
confinement to the stable necessary for the space of a month, but 
he returned to his work on the 17th of March, 1839. 
On the 20th he refused his work, and walked as if he was 
foundered. A large bleeding was effected, and he was recon- 
ducted to the stable. In the course of the night he became worse, 
and I was requested to see him. 
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