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costalis was perfectly healthy! and there was not , on anyone 
spot, the hast adhesion! nor was there any serous effusion in the 
thoracic cavity! 
Remarks .—During the two years and a half I was a pupil at 
the College, and the three years of my being in active practice, 
I never witnessed such ambiguity of symptoms in a living horse, 
or such unusual post-mortem appearances. You may, perhaps, 
think that my treatment was not sufficiently active: to this I 
reply, that, if I had done more, it would not have been in conse¬ 
quence of symptoms demanding it, but merely in the hope of 
“ hitting the mark.’’ There was no acute pneumonia indicated ; 
the respiration up to the 6th, scarcely, if at all, affected ; the 
pulse never was oppressed, full, or hard; it commenced with 
72, and rose, to 110 in a minute, notwithstanding four bleed¬ 
ings to the utmost he could bear. To count the pulsations, 
I was obliged to place my finger as lightly as possible on 
the artery, otherwise I could not have detected it; there 
was scarcely any “ vis a tergo the vessel appeared to the 
touch as though empty, flat—not round ! No chronic suppura¬ 
tive process in the lungs was indicated : the animal was in full 
flesh, and apparently high condition, the very reverse of wasting, 
nor was there any cough . With respect to the liver, I certainly 
suspected, from the first, all was not right there; but still the 
symptoms were ambiguous: there was no yellowness of the 
mouth or conjunctive membranes. The feces in the commence¬ 
ment were constipated, deficient in quantity, and clay-coloured. 
Violent diarrhoea succeeded, the excretion being horridly offen¬ 
sive ; nor were there any strongly marked symptoms of ascites. 
During a short but valuable sojourn at my friend, Mr. Movors, 
veterinary surgeon, I had an opportunity of seeing two cases of 
internal haemorrhage arising from ruptured liver. The early part 
of this case presented a strong resemblance to them ; indeed, I 
feel sure, that, had not the extensive disorganization of the lungs 
carried off* the patient, he must have died from ruptured liver ; 
such was the state of that organ. 
A CASE OF TETANUS. 
By Mr. John Percivall, Sen. Veterinary Surgeon to the 
Ordnance . 
Dec. 18,1829.—I was sent for to visit a brown horse, the 
property of Mr. J-, resident three miles from Woolwich. 
Being myself, at the time the message came, absent from home, 
my assistant went. lie conceived that the horse’s malady was 
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