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The lungs were in the highest state of congestion, and the 
right side of the heart dilated with black blood. 
May it not be said, that the symptoms during life, and the 
appearances after death, indicated a disease analogous to cholera 
in the human being ? 
She had been placed in a low and damp situation in the 
garden, and where, and where alone in the whole garden, disease, 
both thoracic and abdominal, had prevailed during the preced¬ 
ing five or six weeks. 
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Peritonitis and Enteritis. 
CASE I. 
July 14, 1838.—A male zebra, the foal of her who after¬ 
wards died of cholera, little more than a fortnight old, was ob¬ 
served yesterday to strain in passing his fseces, and to-day has 
been several times up and down, and rolling as if from colicky 
pains, w 7 ith a somewhat frequent discharge of faeces—watery— 
mingled with a little mucus—yellow 7 , and having several unmas¬ 
ticated oats in it. I desired that it should no longer be per¬ 
mitted to get at its mother’s corn, and that a drink composed of 
creta preparat. 3ij ; pulv. kino 3 ss; pulv. zingib. 3j ; and pulv. 
opii gr. v. should be given to it to-night and to-morrow morning. 
The medicine was given, and produced its effect: the purging 
ceased, but the little animal continued to be sadly uneasy, and 
lay about, and rolled on the grass. An ounce of castor oil, and 
two drachms of the syrup of white poppies w r ere then given. The 
zebra became easy, and once or twice sucked its dam; but the 
uneasiness and the purging quickly returned. The chalk mixture 
was again had recourse to, and the purging diminished ; but the 
uneasiness increased, and on the third day the patient died. 
The small intestines were filled by a yellowish fluid, mingled 
w 7 ith unmasticated oats. There was not the slightest inflamma¬ 
tion of the mucous membrane, but the mesenteric portion of the 
peritoneum was highly inflamed. The injection was beautiful over 
the mesentery, but there w r as not the slightest appearance of it 
in that portion of the peritoneum which covered the intestines. 
The abdomen contained more than two quarts of bloody serum. 
This was evidently a complicated case. The purging might, 
and probably w T ould, be justly attributed either to the milk of the 
mother, or to the young one being permitted to get at too much 
of her corn. This, how T ever, was a manageable disease : the 
chalk mixture had immediate power over it ; and I do not 
believe that it had any thing to do with the death of the ani¬ 
mal. That I attribute to the peritoneal inflammation, and inflam- 
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