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was the same. The animal could not retain an injection for a 
moment, however small it might be. 
At 8 o’clock he voided a small quantity of brown urine, and, 
shortly afterwards, a little dung after the most painful efforts, but 
they did not seem to afford him any relief. 
From this time until his death these symptoms decreased in 
intensity and increased in frequency. The whole body was co- 
vered with a cold sweat. He fell, sometimes on the right side and 
sometimes on the left, and then scrambled up again, looking 
anxiously at his sides, and pushing his muzzle against them. 
The respiration was short and precipitate — the alee of the nose 
widened and immoveable — the pulse hard, and the artery scarcely 
yielding to pressure. 
24th. — After another violent attack we subtracted 4 lbs. more of 
blood, and with apparent but very short relief. He discharged a 
pint of urine, and some hardened pellets of dung; but he was be- 
coming weaker, and the perspirations were most violent and ex- 
tensive. 
2bth. — He had been calm during the night, but at five o’clock 
a.m. he began again to plunge about. In order to afford him some 
relief, if we could, we opened a vein for the fifth time, and ab- 
stracted four pounds more of blood. He was calm for several 
hours, and then be fell from utter prostration of strength. The 
pulse was no more to be felt — the coldness of the body increased 
— and, at half past eleven o’clock, he died. 
A post-mortem examination took place on the following day. 
The digestive organs were sound — the bladder, ureters, and ure- 
thral canal in their natural state ; but the kidneys were diminished 
in size more than a third, and surrounded by a mass of fat. 
They were as black as ink, and softened to the point of falling 
to pieces by their own weight. The cortical substance was in a 
state of putridity, but the pelvis did not seem to be at all affect- 
ed. The right kidney was more disorganized than the left. 
Nothing but accessory or secondary lesions were found in the 
other organs. 
Case II. — March IsL — A horse five years old, in good condition, 
and not over-worked, exhibited the following symptoms. He was 
out of spirits — there was complete loathing of food — he was conti- 
nually lying down and getting up again immediately — the breath- 
ing was short and quick — the pulse small — the artery distended — 
the mucous membranes of their natural colour — the mouth dry — 
the loins flexible. 
He was put on a restricted diet — emollient injections were ad- 
ministered, which lie did not retain, and friction was resorted to. 
The patient was costive. Towards midnight he lay down, and 
