468 POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION OF A RABID OX. 
« 
9th. —She has not lain down. No suppuration from the 
setons. Respiration more accelerated, laborious, land irregular. 
Great dilatation of the nostrils. I now suspected effusion, and 
changed the mode of treatment. Opiates, purgatives, and diu¬ 
retics. Setons stimulated with spirit of turpentine. Scarification 
of the oedema. 
10 th. —Head depressed. Respiration jerking. Both fore and 
hind legs widened. Eye fixed. Pupil dilated ; pulse scarcely per¬ 
ceptible. No medicine. 
11th. —The mare began to stagger, and at four o’clock in the 
afternoon fell and died. . 
Post-mortem Examination. 
On opening the chest, fifteen pounds of a yellow liquid, con¬ 
taining much flocculent matter, escaped. Adhesion of the pleurae, 
by ligamentary bands. In other parts the pulmonary pleura grey 
and wrinkled, or covered by false membranes which were easily 
torn. Adhesion between the pulmonary and diaphragmatic 
pleurae. 
The lungs, particularly the right lobe, gorged with black blood, 
with a few tubercles and vomicae. Dropsy of the pericardium, but 
no trace of pericarditis. 
No other viscus much affected. 
Observations . 
. Without discussing the question of the existence or non-exist¬ 
ence of idiopathic fever, to what shall we attribute this disease ? 
Was it the consequence of gastro-enteritis? I cannot believe that. 
Or was it secondary to pleuro-peripneumony ? I leave to others 
the task of answering this question # . 
I report this case, as being of very rare occurrence among do¬ 
mestic animals. - 
The Post-Moktem Examination of a Rabid Ox. 
By Messrs. Dupuy and Prince. 
[Journal Pratique, June 1830.] 
An ox, aged two years, died in a village near Toulouse, and 
was carried to the Veterinary School, and opened on the 14th of 
March 1830. . 
* The question is not difficult to answer. The fever was the result of 
inflammation of the lungs and the pleurae, as the post-mortem examination 
proved. The method of treatment could not have been altered had he re¬ 
garded the malady as simple effusion. He has perfectly availed himself of 
every indication.— French Editor . 
