4 LB A CASK OF RUPTURED SPLEEN IN A HORSE. 
the brain were disturbed or suspended by the additional quantity 
of blood determined to it. By giving me your opinion, you wiil 
oblige your’s, &c. 
[There can be no doubt about the matter. Mr. Woodger has hit 
on the veritable cause, and the owner may think himself fortu- 
nate that he did not lose one or both of his horses. — Y.] 
A CASE OF RUPTURED SPLEEN IN A HORSE. 
By the same . 
On Dec. 31, 1840, I was desired to look at a black gelding, 
the property of Mr. Reynolds. The servant said that the animal 
had the belly-ach. When I arrived, I found the horse lying 
down, and looking backwards towards his belly. I inquired how 
long he had been in this state, and was told that he had been 
fed as usual at noon. Half an hour afterwards, it was observed 
that he had not fed, but was very uneasy, pawing with his feet. 
At three o’clock the attendant came for me. The pulse was 
almost imperceptible, the extremities warm, and there were the 
general symptoms of spasmodic colic. 
I gave him a pimento drink, and injected some warm water, 
and said that I would see him again in an hour. I was punctual 
to my time, but found him no better. The owner wished me to 
bleed him ; but the state of his pulse told me that if I did so he 
would certainly die. I gave him another pimento drink. 
From the pallidness of his mouth and the coldness of his ex- 
tremities, I began now to suspect that there was internal hemor- 
rhage, and I communicated my suspicion to the owner, telling 
him that I was quite convinced that the animal had not long to 
live. At half past five o’clock he died. 
On opening the abdomen, I found the cavity filled with coagu- 
lated blood, and I expected to find rupture of the liver ; but, to 
my great surprise, it appeared that all the hemorrhage proceeded 
from the spleen. This viscus was not more than its usual size, 
and, with the exception of a rupture of about three inches in 
length, appeared to be perfectly healthy. The 28th was the last 
day that he had worked, and he then worked very hard in getting 
up some barges. 
