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infiltrations were formed around the wounds, under the belly, and 
in the sheath ; the pulse lost its firmness, and became accelerated ; 
the respiration was likewise quickened and laborious, and little 
hope remained. We gave our patient bitter tonics — we punc- 
tured the infiltrated parts, and bathed them with warm aromatic 
infusions. On the morrow he laid himself down, he languidly 
looked around him for food ; his various senses seemed gradually 
to fail, and he died. 
Two or three other surgical cases must be recorded here, on 
account of the difficult diagnosis which they presented during life, 
and the impossibility of explaining some of the lesions which were 
observed after death. 
A post-horse, that had been treated eight or nine months for 
farcy by an empiric, presented on his croup, the inside of his left 
thigh, and on both sides of the chest, numerous fistulous ulcers. 
They were laid fairly open, and cauterized lightly, but to the bot- 
tom, with the red-hot iron. The horse, until now, although very 
poor, seemed to suffer little pain — his appetite had been good, and 
his breathing regular; but three days after this he began to breathe 
with difficulty — his pulse was small and concentrated — he became 
suddenly weak, and his belly was distended, and he seemed to 
have colicky pains. On account of the extensive ulceration of the 
integument, little could be gained by auscultation ; but on com- 
paring the various symptoms, we suspected pleurisy, complicated 
with indigestion. We effected a copious bleeding — we inserted 
setons in the chest — we gave laxative medicines, and had recourse 
to injections ; but, a few hours afterwards, the horse died. 
He was opened an hour after death, and the following lesions 
were found : — an effusion of blood, to the amount of eight quarts, 
in the peritoneum, liquid in some places, and coagulated in the 
duplicatures of the mesentery. On the right lobe of the liver was 
a bloody tumour, three inches thick, covered by the peritoneum, 
and composed of layers, the exterior ones being red, and the inner 
ones white, and adherent to the substance of the liver, which was 
granulated, porous, and very friable. 
The left lobe, on the contrary, was indurated, and its borders 
retracted and approaching to each other, so as to form a kind of 
cup. There was nothing unusual in the chest ; but the posterior 
ribs, from the eighth to the eighteenth, presented, at the points 
corresponding with the exterior ulcers, a degree of softening — 
osttomaloxie. A hollow in the centre contained the same kind of 
greyish matter, from which proceeded the fungous excrescences of 
the ulcers. The same lesions were observed on the ribs of both 
sides. Almost all the ribs on the left side broke in the centre in 
the attempt to disarticulate them. 
