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than he re-commenced pawing. Then again (for he had done 
the same before he fell) he began his perambulations round the 
box ; walking round for ten, fifteen, or twenty minutes together, 
and always in the same direction; at least, he showed great dis¬ 
inclination, when stopped in his career, to turn the opposite way*. 
I continued in attendance upon him until two o’clock in the 
morning. He was at that hour still upon his legs, and still paw¬ 
ing ; but he was evidently much exhausted ; was stupid; had 
the same fixed, cadaverous stare with his eyes; but evinced in¬ 
stability upon his limbs when he moved round the box. More¬ 
over, he was covered with a cold death-like sweat; and his pulse 
was fast running down. Under these circumstances, I could not 
divine of what possible service I could be of to him further; I 
therefore left him in the charge of a groom and my assistant, with 
directions to visit him every quarter of an hour; to offer him 
gruel; and to call me again if they thought it necessary. 
They reported the next day, that the horse maintained his legs 
until five o’clock in the morning, without evincing to them any 
material change; and at that hour, in the face of one of them, 
who happened to be at the very minute entering the stable, fell 
down, stretched out his limbs, and expired without a struggle. 
Examination of the Body. 
I laid open the cavity of the belly, by making the ordinary 
circular incision of its parietes; but carried it to the utmost 
limits, in order to expose as many as possible of the contained 
bowels. No sooner w r as the flap raised than two inflated por¬ 
tions of small intestines discovered themselves, rising conspi¬ 
cuously into view, and particularly attracting notice from their 
colour, which was that of a claret or Modena red, forming a 
striking contrast with the pale white and perfectly healthy ap¬ 
pearance of the guts surrounding them. The discoloured parts 
were traceable, on the removal of the others with the hand (with¬ 
out any cutting or laceration), up to the pyloric end of the sto¬ 
mach, above which I found them accompanying the duodenum 
through the passage naturally left for that gut between the roots 
of the mesentery and mesocolon. It will be recollected by the 
veterinarian, that, naturally, the convolutions of the jejunum and 
ileum lie loose (or, at least, only confined by the peritoneum) 
within the umbilical region, encircled and partly concealed, while 
the horse is lying on his back, by the arches of the colon : in 
the case before us, one of the convolutions of the ileum had got 
* I on one occasion remarked this same symptom in a fatal case ot 
pneumonia. Is it ominous ? 
