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at all laborious, but shorter and quicker than natural, and the 
state of coma so plainly visible, with eyelids closed, head hang- 
ing, mouth open, and tongue protruded, that I was at first in- 
duced to consider it as a case of stomach-staggers. Upon my 
recommendation, she was destroyed, and my first peep was at the 
stomach and intestines, when, to my surprise, the former was al- 
most in a state of collapse, and it, along with all the rest of the 
abdominal viscera, was in a perfectly healthy state. Upon re- 
moving the sternum, the heart first attracted my attention, from 
its immense size. The lung on the right side retained its natural 
pinky hue, and I was not able to detect the smallest spot of ec- 
chymosis throughout its whole extent; and no doubt exists in 
my mind, that death would shortly have taken place from the 
effects of the disease situated in the heart, the left ventricle being 
in such a state of dilatation, that it almost filled the left cavity 
of the chest, usually occupied by the lung, but which, in this in- 
stance, had gradually become absorbed, in order to accommodate 
itself to the increasing size of the ventricle, and had proceeded so 
far, that the left lung did not exceed in size the breadth of one’s 
hand, and that small portion was situated at the most posterior 
and superior part of the chest. The brain was perfectly healthy. 
MISCELLANEOUS CASES. 
By Mr. W. Cox, of Leek. 
The Epidemic. 
The epidemic among cows has somewhat abated here of late, 
and the influenza among farmers’ horses is becoming more general. 
A farmer, who keeps four horses, has had three attacked by it. 
They are getting better, but the other — a mare — has, as yet, 
escaped. On inquiry, I found that she had the influenza in 1836. 
Are the horses that were diseased in 1836-37 liable to the in- 
fluenza that is now prevalent ? This is a curious and an interest- 
ing question. I gave at first — and I thought with very good 
effect — from one to three drachms of aloes to each of my pa- 
tients, until I began to find that some of them were violently 
purged by two drachms of aloes. I can now do very well with- 
out aloes in this complaint. I am at this moment attending a 
horse that has been purging four days, from a dose of physic 
administered by a farrier. 
