A CASE OF BRONCHITIS. 
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culty he could be got home, where upon his arrival I was imme¬ 
diately sent for. -I found his breathing short and quick in the 
extreme, accompanied with a wheezing noise, and frequent sono¬ 
rous puffs from his dilated nostrils: indeed 1 don’t know that I 
ever remember to have seen a horse with his respiration more 
disturbed; profuse perspiration running off him in great quan¬ 
tities ; ears, extremities, and surface of the body icy cold; a small 
quick pulse, exceeding 100; a cadaverous feel in the mouth; a 
copious discharge of mueo-purulent matter from the nostrils, with 
occasional streaks of blood; the Schneiderian membrane highly 
inflamed, and frequent cough. 
I ordered him to lose tbx of blood, to have rowels inserted in 
the chest, blisters to the sides, bandages to the legs, and to have 
aloes 3'iij, hellebore alb. sis, tereb. com. ofs. M. 
At 2 p.m., not appearing any better, I repeated the venesec¬ 
tion fbviij, the blister to the sides, likewise the ball. After this 
second bleeding he appeared much relieved, his respiration was 
more tranquil, and he was, to all appearance, much easier. 
At 5 p.m. he suddenly tumbled down, and died within eleven 
hours from the time he was attacked. 
The apparent relief after the second bleeding I attribute, in a 
great measure, to the copious discharge which had taken place 
from the nostrils, it having run from him in considerable quanti¬ 
ties the wdiole day. 
Post-mortem appearances. —The surface of the lungs exhibited 
strono' marks of inflammation, to which there w 7 as a great deter- 
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mi nation. 
Upon cutting open the trachea, I found the membrane lining 
it, as w r ell as the larynx, highly inflamed, likewise the bronchia^, 
which were completely filled with the same muco-purulent matter 
as that expectorated during life, and which w r as besmeared 
throughout the surface of the membrane lining the trachea. 
There can be no doubt that death closed the scene partly from 
suffocation, together with the blood not undergoing that change 
so essential to the production of animal heat, and to the support 
of life, to w r hich may be attributed the extreme coldness of the 
extremities and surface of the body. 
