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ON HEMORRHAGE FROM THE LIVER. 
1 5th. —Is much reduced in size, stales abundantly. Discon¬ 
tinue the medicine. 
In a few days after, the owner, contrary to advice, put this 
horse to work, at which he continued till the evening* of the 
30th of December following*, when I again saw him under the 
following circumstances :—Pulse indistinct; action of heart tu¬ 
multuous; profuse sweating; pawing; crouching; lifting the 
hind legs occasionally to the belly ; respiration much accelerated; 
deep and frequent sighing; distended abdomen; blanched con¬ 
junctive and buccal membranes ; complete amaurosis : died that 
night. 
Examination .—Belly full of dark venous blood which had 
escaped from a rupture of the liver: the liver greatly disor¬ 
ganized ; all the other viscera hea thy. 
An old break-horse, after having* been driven against fourteen 
young horses which were shewn to a foreigner, was observed to 
be unwell; and the ow ner, considering from his symptoms that 
he laboured under colic, gave him a drink, and bled him: al¬ 
though but a small quantity of blood could be detracted, the 
symptoms were much aggravated. I w r as called in, and found 
the horse down. The following symptoms were presented :— 
much distention of the abdomen; accelerated respiration; par¬ 
tial sweats ; buccal and conjunctive membranes blanched; pulse 
feeble, thready, but distinct and exceedingly frequent. After 
some minutes the horse rose on to his belly, looked round to the 
flank, got up, curled his lip, raised his head, sighed, staggered 
about the box, and fell. After falling, the pupils, which were 
previously dilated, became more contracted : he ceased to sigh, 
and would lie tolerably tranquil for a few minutes, then, with 
much difficulty, rise again, on which the sighing and fainting, &c. 
returned. The animal became gradually weaker, the pulse indis¬ 
tinct, and, the pupils dilating, amaurosis supervened: he was 
now unable to rise, struggled occasionally and violently, making 
forced expiratory efforts, succeeded by gaping and oscillation of 
the eyes; threw 7 back his head, and died. 
Examination. —The abdomen full of dark fluid venous blood ; 
much dark coagulum about the ruptured part of the liver and 
beneath the peritoneal coat: the cohesiveness of the texture of 
the liver quite destroyed. 
