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was tranquil during the night, except that he frequently raised 
his head and looked at his flank. At five o’clock he began again 
to be uneasy, and the symptoms were more alarming than on the 
preceding night. Six pounds of blood were abstracted, but this 
did not afford any relief. The other means were continued, with 
the addition of a bottle of olive oil. 
At noon he was again bled. An ounce of ether in a pint of 
cold water was given. It was necessary to give it by the nasal 
passages, and it was no sooner swallowed than a kind of crisis 
occurred. The respiration was as precipitate as it was possible to 
be, attended by a kind of snoring noise — the horse staggered 
against a wall, and appeared as if a fainting fit was coming on. 
This continued about a minute : when he became calm by degrees. 
Similar crises, however, continued to return ; but they were not 
so violent nor so long, and every time that he seemed to recover 
from the fit he looked round mournfully at his flank. We opened 
the saphenas, for we were afraid of some sanguineous congestion 
of the colon or the kidneys. The blood ran very slowly, and we 
obtained between four and five pounds ; but the animal was much 
agitated — the respiration was quickened and the perspiration was 
so frequent and abundant that it required four men to keep him 
dry. The patient made many vain efforts to void his dung, but 
only small portions of mucus escaped. Not a drop of an injection 
could be retained, and the urine — of its natural colour — was voided 
with difficulty, and a little at a time. We attempted, at two dif- 
ferent times, to force on him two ounces of the syrup of opium ; but 
it so exasperated him, and produced such dreadful spasms, that we 
were compelled to desist. In spite of his feebleness he could 
walk very well — his head, and eyes, and ears, and attitude, con- 
veyed no impression of considerable suffering, but the movements 
of the flanks and the alee of the nose announced some lesion of 
that portion of the nervous system which presides over respiration 
and the spasmodic motions of the limbs. The permanence and 
augmentation of the intensity of every symptom gradually wore 
the animal out, and he died at eight o’clock at night, just 
twenty-four hours from the commencement of the attack. 
On examining him, very intense sanguineous congestion ap- 
peared through the whole extent of the mesentery. The mucous 
membrane of one part of the floating portion of the colon was 
also of a cherry-red colour. The ureters, the bladder, and the 
urethra were unaffected. The kidneys were blackened in several 
parts, and the cortical portion was softened to a considerable 
depth. The appearance of the right kidney shewed more dis- 
organization than the left. The carcass was much puffed up, and 
there was a great tendency to putrefaction. The blood was 
