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A CASE OF DISEASE OF TIIE LUNGS, 
Jan. 5, 12 a.m. —Pulse 88, just as small; the respiration is 
now more quick and short; temperature of the body about the 
same. V.S. fbviii; administered the alterative ball, continue 
the powders. 4 p.m. same day, pulse the same, 88, just as 
weak ; other symptoms a little increased. 
Jan . 6.—Pulse 65, and weak; convulsive trembling of the 
pectoral muscles, respiration remarkably short, and tremulous, so 
that I could scarcely say when he was expiring or inspiring; 
considerable distress of countenance ; does not feed; drinks 
freely of the nitre and water. The bowels and kidnies being as I 
would wish, nothing of any consequence was done. 
Jan. 7, 3 p.m. —Patient worse; pulse the same : there is no 
increased vascularity of the Schneiderian membrane; in fact, it 
is whiter than in health: respired breath still warm. On 
placing my hand on the near hind foot to learn its temperature, 
I remarked to those in the box that it was warm. A groom on 
the off side exclaimed that the off hind foot was cold: this was 
true. I examined the fore feet, the very reverse existed; the 
near fore foot was cold, the off fore foot warm : such was the ir¬ 
regularity of the circulation or nervous influence. The pulse 
was still at 80, yet I did not bleed ! I never felt such a pulse ; 
the artery was small, imperfectly filled, and flat: in fact, if he 
had been dying from internal haemorrhage, or had had some ex¬ 
traordinary organic disease of his heart, the pulse could not have 
put on a more remarkable appearance. The animal not feeding, 
we endeavoured to horn down some gruel ; but this produced so 
much agitation, that we desisted. 
Jan. 8.—He is now purging violently; astringent medicines 
were administered effectually, and every thing was done to re¬ 
lieve the poor animal, but in vain: he lingered till the night of 
the 14th, and died apparently without a struggle. 
Post-?nortem Examination. —The abdomen contained about a 
bucket and a half of serum ; the liver presented a singular ap¬ 
pearance, was of a light clay colour, and remarkably soft and 
pulpy. To the admirers of baked ground-rice pudding I must 
apologize ; but I can offer no better simile of its texture. As for 
the lungs, I never saw such : on drawing my hand over their 
surfaces, innumerable small tubercular swellings were felt, inter¬ 
spersed with larger hard tumours, about the size of a large wal¬ 
nut ; these, with a great discolouration, were the most remark¬ 
able external appearances. The left lung being the most diseased, 
it was cut into first, which exposed most extensive suppuration 
throughout its whole substance; indeed, it would have been dif¬ 
ficult to have found a square inch without pus. The right lung 
presented the same appearances, only in a less degree. The pleura 
