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seven to fourteen days; but, as I have just stated, there are, 
sometimes, not four-and-twenty hours between the attack of the 
malady and the loss of the patient. These, however, are excep- 
tions to the general rule. Generally speaking, there is warning 
enough. There is cough — a sore cough — tenderness of the sides 
— diminution of the quantity of milk ; occasionally altered colour, 
taste, and smell of that milk— a peculiar expression of pain, a 
kind of grunt or groan accompanying every act of breathing — 
the cough becoming daily more painful, considerable debility 
stealing on, and rapid emaciation. 
The appearances after death do not always vary to any con- 
siderable extent. Often, the abdominal cavity presents almost 
perfect health, and if any lesion is found the character of it is un- 
certain ; but the contents of the chest exhibit usually one mass 
of disease, strangely varying in different subjects ; in some, limit- 
ing its action to the membranes; in others, involving the whole 
pulmonary apparatus in one disorganized mass. 
CASES OF ANASARCA: 
SELECTED FROM THE RECORDS OF THE CLINICAL SCHOOL 
AT ALFORT. 
The first animal whose case is selected is an entire draught 
horse, of a chestnut colour, and eleven or twelve years old. 
He possessed unusual energy and strength. On one day, when 
the temperature was exceedingly cold, his driver perceived that, 
on his return to the stable, his legs were a little swelled. On the 
following morning the man observed with astonishment that his 
neck, the inferior part of his thorax, his belly, his testicles, and 
his thighs, were enormously enlarged, and impeded the motion 
of his limbs, and also his breathing. 
M. Bouley was consulted, and he advised that the animal should 
be brought to the hospital of the school. On the 13th of January, 
1840, he was conveyed, by means of the railroad, from Ablon to 
Alfort, a distance of three leagues. 
On his arrival he was entrusted to the care of the pupil Mar- 
cus*. A very considerable swelling extended from the lower part 
* It is the custom, and a very excellent one, at the Frencli school, to place 
every animal under the surveillance of a pupil, who reports to the clinical 
professor as to the state of the patient, and acts in conformity with the com- 
mands of the professor. 
