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ception of a slight attack of catarrh, he continued to enjoy the 
same apparently healthy condition in which he was received 
from the marchand de chevaux. 
November 30. My attention was called to him in consequence 
of his not performing his exercises in the riding school with his 
usual cheerfulness and activity, being naturally extremely ani¬ 
mated ; it was also added that he proved foggy at his work, and 
that for some days past he had not eaten his usual allowance of 
either hay or corn. I found his pulse quickened —55 to 60; 
his coat dry, and showing an inclination to roughen; his mouth 
partaking of this feverish condition, feeling hot and dry; his 
bowels disposed to costiveness: withal however there was no¬ 
thing to lead me to suspect that any organ in particular was the 
seat of disease, or indeed that the disorder was any thing more 
than slight constitutional disturbance, which laxative medicine, 
mashing, and quietude would not in a few days remove. 
December, Early in this month a remarkable symptom pre¬ 
sented itself, and continued until the day of his death, one which 
I felt myself unable to account for, although, as the case even¬ 
tually proved, it was highly characteristic of the disease ; and 
that was—cudding his hay and even his corn, disgorging both 
after they had been well masticated and mingled with saliva, 
and were in a suitable state to be swallowed : it did not appear 
that the alimentary bolus entered the esophagus, and, not find¬ 
ing ready admission into the stomach, was thence returned into 
the mouth ; at least, nothing like efforts to vomit or symptoms 
of such inverted action were ever observed; nor did the dis¬ 
gorged masses of hay, corn, &c. present g^ny sort of form or 
compactedness which they might have been expected to have 
done providing they had been moulded within that canal. The 
appetite under these circumstances was for the first fortnight or 
three weeks rendered so keen' that whenever fresh provender 
was set before him, he would seize it with great avidity, and 
appear to eat for a few minutes with a degree even of voracity, 
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