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ritis was present^ I did not let him have any more of it* There 
was a peculiarly anxious death-struck appearance from-the time I 
first saw him. I took away about three quarts of blood from him. 
The blood was very dark and bubbly, and loose in texture. He 
reeled about, and, on giving him an oily drink, he fell down. 
I was obliged to leave him to attend another horse, and I saw him 
again in about two hours. I understood, at first, that'he had 
only been ill a very little time before I was sent for ; but, on going 
into the field where he was turned out, I found that he had rolled 
about at many places, and the ladies who drove him home in the 
evening before said that they found him different from, what he 
usually was, and they found him particularly irritable, so that I 
think he had been bad all night. The pains did not seem to be 
very severe, and the extremities were not cold. Sometimes he lay 
down very still, and sometimes stood up for a while, and did not 
roll about very much at any time. The oily drink was repeated, 
and half an ounce of tincture of opium with it. Injections were 
given every two hours. The bowels were very much confined, and 
there was something like a hiccuping in the throat. He was now 
lying down, and, as I stood looking at him, I saw him bring up 
something of a very offensive smell, and mixed with the oil that 
had been given. He got up and stood with his head over the 
manger, and kept throwing up every few minutes, sometimes only 
a very little, at others a pint or more, through the nostrils, and in 
this way he kept on until a few hours of his death. Large injec¬ 
tions were thrown up, but he gradually seemed to be worse. 
I was quite at a loss to know what more to do. I have seen many 
horses with inflamed bowels, and, though I was satisfied there 
were inflamed bowels here, I thought it was complicated with 
something else. The horse' staled freely, and the pulse was about 
eighty. I was of opinion that the complaint, whatever it was, 
was veiy near the pyloric orifice of the stomach, but whether there 
was any lesion or strangulation, or stone in the passage, I could 
not tell. I gave it, however, as my opinion, that something of 
that sort had taken place. He became worse and worse, and died 
in about'twenty-four hours after I first saw him. Just before he 
died he walked out of the stably, and was found standing in the 
pond, and I think he drank some water, as there was a consider¬ 
able, deal found in the stomach alter death, otherwise he had not 
eaten or drank any thing after he'had been taken ill. 
On opening him, about six yards of the small intestines, from 
the pyloric orifice, did not seem to be affected; then, for five yards 
and a half, the gut was completely filled with coagulated blood 
of a dark colour. The parts of the bowels behind the stoppage 
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