132 A CASK OF DISEASE OF THE LUNGS 
mitted universally to a foreign yoke. The ancient predictions of 
scripture, “That the Ishmaelites should be wild men, should 
have their hand against every man, and every man’s hand against 
them, and yet should dwell in the tents of their brethren,” have 
been fulfilled among them for more than three thousand years. 
The same life is still uniformly followed by the roving tribes of 
the desert; “ and in the portrait of the modern Bedouins, w r e 
may trace,” says Gibbon, “ the features of their ancestors, who, 
in the age of Moses or Mahomet, dwelt under similar tents, and 
conducted their horses , and camels, and sheep, to the same 
springs and the same pastures.” 
A CASE OF DISEASE OF THE LUNGS, COMBINED 
WITH DROPSY. 
By Mr. Kerr, of Southampton. 
On the 1st of January, 1830,12 a.m. I was requested to see a 
favourite chesnut hack, the property of A. R. Ditton, Esq, M. P. 
Bugle Hall, Southampton. The subject was in full flesh, and 
in apparently high condition; was eighteen years old, had lived 
a very quiet and indolent life, and had always been highly fed. 
The coachman informed me that yesterday he appeared dull at 
exercise, and had not for the last two or three days voided hits 
usual quantity of faeces. This induced him to take aw r ay about 
four quarts of blood ; but the horse breaking out into a profuse 
perspiration, it obliged him to “ pin up.” This morning I find 
him labouring under the following extraordinary symptoms: 
Respiration perfectly quiet: on placing my finger on the sub¬ 
maxillary artery, I found an apparently empty tube, and could 
not detect the slightest pulsation. The horse was then moved 
out into the yard for the purpose of judging his strength, of 
which there was some prostration. On his returning to his box, 
I again tried the pulse, and counted, with extreme difficulty, 
seventy-two small weak pulsations in a minute; the Schneide¬ 
rian membrane and inside of the mouth were nearly colourless, 
temperature of the latter healthy, as also were the extremities 
and surface of the body. I merely administered, aloes 3iv, 
nitre 3v, soap 3fi • and left my patient, without proceeding 
further for the present. In four hours I saw him again ; pulse 68, 
with a little more strength. Wishing to detect the least alteration 
of symptoms, I found the respiration a little short; but, had not 
my attention been particularly directed to it, I should not have 
observed it. Y.S. Ifex. The horse became faint, and the pul- 
