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oesophagus immediately afterwards, we could feel that it was filled 
with the liquid which he had swallowed, and which had not been 
ejected from the nostrils. 
Diagnosis. — The same as yesterday. 
Treatment. — The same as yesterday, except the bleeding. 
During the night he had partial sweats, particularly about the 
tracheal region of the neck. 
2 6th . — The symptoms unchanged, except that the colic was not 
so frequent or so acute. The small quantity of fluid which he 
essayed to drink was visibly arrested in the oesophagus, which, in 
proportion as the quantity of food augmented, was distended, and 
formed, in the inferior part of the depression occupied by the oeso- 
phagus, a cylindrical projection, very visible to the eye. Percus- 
sion on this projecting part gave the precise feeling of a fluid 
underneath, and it only needed to press from below upwards to 
cause the fluid to ascend, and escape through the nasal cavities. 
Diagnosis and Treatment the same. 
27^. — The colic diminished in frequency and intensity, but the. 
other symptoms were aggravated. 
The night was tolerably calm until about two o’clock in the 
morning, when the horse began to roll and to beat himself more 
violently than he had hitherto done. He would not continue stand- 
ing a single instant ; his cries were dreadful, particularly when he 
was ejecting any liquid matter from the nostrils ; and these came 
now almost continually stained with blood, and with an acid smell 
more and more penetrating. In this state of horrible suffering he 
remained until nearly five o’clock in the morning — the pulse inex- 
plorable — cold sweats all over the body — the extremities icy-cold 
— the respiration deep and tremulous, and the expired air cold. 
From five to seven o’clock there was comparative tranquillity, and 
at seven o’clock our patient died without a struggle. 
He was opened three hours after death. 
I shall say nothing of the lesions of the spleen, the liver, or the 
lungs, but confine myself with the morbid lesions, which constituted 
the principal disease, and which, in fact, destroyed the horse. 
The Mouth. — There was nothing remarkable, except the black 
tint to which I have already referred when describing the symp- 
toms. 
The Pharynx. — We could discover, through the epithelium 
which covered the mucous coat, the vivid red tint of the membrane. 
This epithelium, which was easily detached from the membrane 
which it covered, was pierced by eight or ten rounded ulcers, of a 
deep brown colour, and which just penetrated into the body of the 
mucous membrane. 
(Esophagus. — Examined exteriorly, this tube exhibited great soft- 
