STOMACH STAGGERS IN A MAKE. 
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On the day of her death she travelled twenty-two miles out, 
and home again. At the end of the first twelve miles in going 
out she began to purge, which continued until her death, and 
during the whole of the journey she neither ate nor drank. Her 
owner says that he did not at any part of the journey exceed six 
miles an hour, and, a great part of the way home, he led 
her — that she hung down her head and reeled about, but never 
fell. 
On her arrival at home I was sent for, and found her with her 
head placed against the corner of the stall, pushing wih all 
her weight and strength. The state of the pulse I could not 
ascertain, from the violence of her efforts in pushing against the 
corner of the stall, and in about half an hour after she reached 
home she died. I did not see her die, for although I knew her 
life could not be saved, yet at the wish of her owner I went 
home (the stable is the next yard to mine) to prepare a dose of 
medicine, and on my return found her dead, with the forehead 
pressed against the corner of the stall. She was on her knees, 
and her body alongside the wall. They who had remained in the 
stable during my short/ absence were not aware from her position 
that she was dead until 1 told them, but thought that she was on 
her knees still pushing. 
I told her owner it was a case of stomach staggers. From his 
statement I felt satisfied that it could not arise from over-distended 
stomach, and therefore assured him that, in my opinion, it must 
arise from inflammation of the stomach : as for medical treat- 
ment, there was no opportunity for it. 
The post-mortem appearances were, as the stomach has shewn 
you, inflammation, not very acute, of the whole ofthevillous coat 
and part of the cuticular portion. It contained about three 
pints of food well masticated, in a fluid state, about the consist- 
ence of tolerably thick gruel. 
The contents of the large intestines were in a similarly fluid 
state, although she had travelled forty-four miles subsequently 
to having swallowed food or liquid of any kind. 
The mucous membranes of the caecum and colon were of a 
leaden hue — the vessels in the membranes of the brain were very 
turgid, but it could not be said that they were actually inflamed. 
The lungs shewed some reddening, as might be expected, from 
having travelled so far in such a state. 
The bones in the liver I cannot say any thing decisive about ; 
they were imbedded in the margin of the liver, lying in contact 
with the diaphragm, which bore an appearance as though some 
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