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power on the increased action of the heart. The surface of the 
body still continued warm, but the breath of the animal was very 
offensive, showing the ulcerated state of the lungs. 
1 5th. —In the morning I met Mr. Bean, in consultation on the 
case. He proposed bleeding, as the only thing to be done ; and 
feeling satisfied as well as himself that there was but little 
chance, we bled to the amount of four quarts. This did not 
lower the frequency of the pulse, but softened the quality of the 
beating at the heart. We ordered him sedative balls. Mr. Bean 
scarified the belly, and some serum escaped. At six in the evening 
we met again. The symptoms were more unfavourable; the pulse 
80 ; respiration very difficult; extremities and surface of the 
body still w arm ; appetite and the unpleasant smell gone. We 
took four quarts more of blood away, at Mr. Bean’s request. 
1 6th. —In the morning I again met Mr. Bean, whose opinion 
coincided with mine, that it was of no use to attempt venesection 
again, as the animal was fast sinking. At two o’clock the patient 
died, and two hours afterwards I examined the body. 
Examination after' Death . 
The lungs were in a dreadful state ; one lobe had entirely lost 
all appearance of what it formerly had been, and constituted 
one mass or substance exactly like buffy blood drawn from an 
animal while under inflammation. The other lobe was ulcerated 
in various parts, very offensive, and quite .black ; the pleurae 
thickened, and the anterior portion of the diaphragm had several 
ulcers on it. The heart was much enlarged, and the bag con¬ 
taining it in a gangrenous state. There was serous effusion in the 
thoracic cavity to the amount of several quarts. The stomach 
and intestines were much distended with flatus, and the liver 
greatly enlarged and gorged with blood. One kidney was in a 
high state of inflammation, and all other parts natural. It was 
evidently a complicated and lost case from the first. 
ESSAYS ON HORSE MEDICINE; 
COMPREHENDING THE THEORY AND PRACTICE BOTH OF THE FRENCH 
AND ENGLISH VETERINARY SCHOOLS. 
ARTICLE III. 
Of Disease in the Blood — Humours — Transfusion. 
In former days, all disorders of spontaneous or obscure origin 
were supposed to proceed from some altered condition of the fluids 
or “ humours” of the body, of which the blood (the most gene- 
