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At eight o’clock the animal was continually looking at its 
Hanks — occasionally scraped with his fore feet — prepared to lie 
down, and placed himself upon his knees, but immediately rose 
again without his hind quarters having touched the ground. 
The pulse was small, and the artery could scarely be felt, but it 
was regular. We opened the jugular vein, which we effected 
with the greatest difficulty, and not without putting the animal 
under restraint ; for, although habitually good-tempered, he now 
abandoned himself to an excess of rage that was truly frightful. 
We could only obtain three pounds and a half of blood, which 
was of a deep black colour, and coagulated as it flowed. 
His elevated head and wild expression of countenance an- 
nounced his sufferings. Without any apparent reason he be- 
came sadly lame on the left fore-foot, and the articulations 
cracked more and more. The exterior temperature was sensibly 
diminished in the whole of the anterior part of the body. 
8th . — The night was tranquil. The circulation was remark- 
ably diminished — the effect, probably, of the narcotic. The 
pulse was intermittent. He searched for something to eat. Give 
warm drinks, with barley-meal and nitrate of potash. 
9th . — The lameness still remains, but somewhat diminished 
Going on well. Gradually returning to his usual food. 
15th . — He is perfectly well. 
If we now seriously consider the facts which have been de- 
scribed, the hygean and the physiological position of our pa- 
tients before the attack of the disease, we shall not wonder that 
all the victims, inhabiting the same district, under the influence 
of the same temperature, accustomed to the same kind of food, 
and having the same organism and physical temperament and 
state, should be attacked by maladies of which the essence was 
the same, as well as the determining cause. If in the relation of 
symptoms they appeared to be unlike in intensity, it is not the 
less true that they arose from the same causes, and that the dif- 
ferences which have been described are to be attributed to the 
difference that existefl in the organization of the individuals. 
The attack and the progress of the disease have been constantly 
the same, although it has fixed on organs that have no analogy 
with each other in composition ; and although it has left after it 
lesions which have varied in their intensity and their modifications 
according to the treatment. In all, the nervous system under- 
went a remarkable change. In two of them, that portion of the 
system which presides over locomotion was affected, and in all 
that which governs the process of respiration underwent a com- 
plete change. In the third case, we saw one portion of the mus- 
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