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to refuse to look at food of any kind. He had ejected the tobacco 
enema; but it returned unmixed with any feculent matter. 
It was now eight o’clock, six hours and upwards from the 
commencement of his relapse, and this poor suffering beast had, 
horn all that we could discover, experienced but very little indeed 
l an 7\. intermissl0n of pain ; and pain, too, of the most acute 
c escnption : it was evident that unless something effectual could 
wi j 16 , C ° 1 uld o n0t endure this a g' re at while longer. 
What was to be done? I now entertained strong suspicions that 
Ins disease was one of mechanical derangement— that it was either 
mtro-susception, or entanglement, or knot, or twist, of some one 
01 other of the intestines, and that all the medicinal means we 
coukl employ would avail nothing: and, further, that unless our 
ait could devise some method of rectifying this derangement, the 
present was one of those cases most truly styled an opprobrium 
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I had the tobacco injection and the mustard embrocation re¬ 
peated ; and I made an attempt to give trial to another drench 
composed of a pint and a half of oil, two ounces of laudanum, 
and the same quantity of spirits of turpentine: but the animal 
hy this time had acquired some sensations of vertigo and deli¬ 
rium, which caused him, every time his head was raised for the 
purpose of making him swallow the mixture, to reel roundabout* 
in one of which reels he fell down head foremost; thus putting 
an end to any further attempt, after having been able to force 
but very little of the fluid down his throat. 
After this violent and headlong fall he lay almost motionless, 
as it stupilied, for two hours or more. During the time he ap¬ 
peared insensible, or nearly so, to all around him : his eyes had 
a fixed,^ glaring, glassy stare, and were perfectly unmoved by the 
flame of the candle held quite close to them; his pulse was quick, 
but it evinced sinking —it gave the sensation to the finger of 
running down,” similar to what happens in the pendulum of a 
broken clock ; his skin, profusely wet with sweat, felt cold, 
clammy and cadaverous: he lay stretched out, quite quiet, and 
free from pain. I said to those standing around. 
Mortification has now taken place in this horse’s inside, and 
he is at present in a dying state.” In expectation of the scene 
x mg closed, we icmained in the box a full hour, looking at him; 
but he, all the while, appearing insensible to us and every thing 
else; when, to our surprise, all on a sudden, he rose his head 
irom the straw and turned it round, as if to gaze upon us. I do 
not believe, however, he could see us—certainly not distinctly— 
the pupils were loo much dilated. Shortly afterwards he got 
once more upon his legs ; and no sooner had accomplished it 
