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CASE OF DILATATION OF THE HEART, &C. 
on account of his being so vicious, and particularly because, 
when led along the streets, he tried to kick every horse and 
every person that he passed. 
The horse fed well, and I merely advised more exercise. 
M. M. Landormy had previously bled him, because he perceived 
that the conjunctiva was much injected. 
A few days after my first visit I was again sent for; the 
oedema was prolonged beyond the sheath as far as the umbilicus. 
The horse still fed well. I made some scarifications on the 
scrotum and on the sheath, and recommended them to put him 
into harness, since he could not be easily exercised otherwise. 
The oedema diminished for several days, but it afterwards 
returned. In the course of one night it became very much in¬ 
creased (this was about the 4th or 5th of June); it was pro¬ 
longed behind as far as the perinaeum, and before to the girths ; 
and if it did not extend farther forwards, it was because the sur¬ 
cingle of his clothing, which strongly compressed the chest, op¬ 
posed it. The oedema covered the whole of the belly ; it was in 
some places not less than three inches in thickness. The horse 
only ate a part of his ration; but he drank with avidity. He 
was much quieter, and they could easily lead him in a halter. 
I scarified the principal oedematous points afresh, and ordered 
the animal to be walked about. A great quantity of serosity ran 
from the wounds, and particularly from the fresh scarifications 
which I had made on the sheath. 
The following day the oedema was considerably diminished, but 
much serosity continued to flow. The horse ate better and drank a 
great quantity of bran-water, which the grooms gave him without 
consulting me. 
I permitted several days to pass without going to the stable to 
see the horse; but the groom who exercised it brought it to me 
every day, so that I only saw it when it had been exercised for 
some time. I observed that the respiration was accelerated, 
but I attributed this to the effect of the exercise which the ani¬ 
mal had taken before it came to me. 
The account which the groom gave me did not at all enlighten 
me on this point, for I only learned from him that the animal 
ate less and less, but continued to drink with eagerness, and 
that the wounds still discharged. I went to the stable on the 
12th of June, to see the horse, and found him in the following 
state : the respiration was very slow and slightly prolonged ; the 
pulse very weak and slow; the skin very cold on the ears and 
extremities; the mucous membranes pale; the air expired, hot. 
I had the horse brought out, and, after he had been walked 
about for a few minutes, the pulse and the respiration became 
