SPASM OF THK DIAPHRAGM. 
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only a short distance. It gave the whole body a slight shake. 
On feeling the pulse at the jaw, 1 found it very full and dis- 
tinct ; and on keeping my finger on the artery, and fixing my eye 
on the beating in the side, I found that they were not acting at 
the same time, but regularly after each other, each beating 48 
times in a minute, and remarkably regularly. On putting my 
hand to the side of the chest, I could not feel the beating of the 
heart, but, on applying my ear, I could detect it, but not loudly. 
I then proceeded to the oft' side, to ascertain if there was the 
same beating in the opposite flank, but I found that there was 
not the least. I next applied my hand and ear to the side of the 
chest, and found that the heart’s action was very great indeed — 
as much so as ever 1 felt or heard on that side. 
Treatment. — I took three quarts of blood from him, and gave 
pulv. opii 3> in a soft ball. At four o’clock the next morning 
he was but little better. At seven he was considerably better, 
and the throbbing had almost subsided. At nine I saw him, 
and found him nearly well. The beating was now very weak, 
and almost indistinct; but just below where it was seen to beat 
there was a slight quivering or contraction of a small portion of 
the panniculus carnosus. The pulse at the jaw and the beating 
at the side were found to follow each other as regularly as when 
I first saw him. The respiration was now pretty tranquil, and 
the pulse at the chest was very distinctly felt. After this he had 
only a little aperient sedative medicine, and he was all right 
again. 
This case leads me to doubt whether such cases are confined 
solely to the diaphragm, and whether they are not connected 
with the action of the heart. I recollect having a case of this 
description whilst a horse was under the operation of a strong 
dose of sem. croton, merely given to physic him ; but the particulars 
I now forget, as it is some years since, and before the profession 
had publicly noticed such cases. 
INFLAMMATION AND CALCULI IN THE BLADDER 
OF AN OX. 
By Mr. J. Hawthorn, F.S., Kettering. 
On the 28th of June, ult. I attended a bullock that was ob- 
served to stand alone from his fellows, and was thought to be ill. 
His general appearance was nearly healthy. His pulse was 
weak, but not quicker than usual. He stretched his hind legs 
