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(ESOPHAGITIS IN THE HOUSE. 
ceedingly hot — the tongue almost blackened — the loins preserved 
their inflexibility. As he walked, his hind limbs did not appear 
to be perfectly under his command, but dragged a little after him. 
The walking did not accelerate the respiration. 
Diagnosis . — The exploration of the pharynx and of the cervical 
portion of the oesophagus not presenting any thing to account for 
the singular phenomena which I had witnessed, I continued to 
think that the stomach was the chief seat of disease — that it was 
distended by solid or liquid food, the presence of which had ex- 
cited inflammation. That which induced me to trace it to dis- 
tention of the stomach was, that, if I lowered the head of the 
animal, and pressed with my knee the hypogastric region, a quan- 
tity of fluid escaped from the nose, the odour of which sufficiently 
proved that it came from the stomach. 
Treatment . — The state of the pulse and of the mucous membranes 
induced me to abstract four pounds of blood. The injections and 
frictions with emetic tartar were continued. In the course of the 
day, the animal, who had not dunged from the commencement of 
the disease, twice voided a small portion of very hard faeces, coated 
with mucus. His thirst was excessive, and we gave him a por- 
tion of mucilaginous fluid mixed with honey. He drank it with 
avidity, although evidently with pain. He had, however, scarcely 
taken a quart of it, ere he was seized with colic more violent than 
ever, and at the same instant returned through the nostril, and 
without effort or convulsion, the whole that he had drank. As 
he then appeared to search for food, we gave him, towards the 
evening, a handful of hay, which he took, but with no great eager- 
ness, and, having masticated it some time, he dropped it, after 
several useless efforts to swallow it. During the mastication the 
flow of saliva was very great. 
In the night ’he was very much agitated, and he was almost 
continually eructating. He several times uselessly attempted to 
void his dung. The extremities were alternately hot and cold, 
and the colicky pains continued almost without intermission. To- 
wards morning he became a little calmer. 
2 5th . — With the exception of the colic every other symptom 
was aggravated — the respiration was louder — the movements of 
the flank accelerated — the pulse irregular, strong at the heart, and 
about 87 in a minute : the animal was melancholy and depressed 
— his walk was staggering — fluid issued from the nose at the least 
pressure on the side, or when, as he took his slow and feeble walk, 
he bent his head in search of a little grass. We gave him some- 
thing to drink, but the fluid no longer escaped from the nose after 
he drunk, but while he was drinking ; and if we explored the 
