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SEROUS APOPLEXY IN A MARE. 
I found her down, and gasping as if in the last agonies of death; 
her nostrils dilated, and the perspiration steaming from every pore. 
She was continually attempting to rise, but had apparently lost all 
power of supporting herself, and her struggles were so continued 
and so violent that I did not deem it safe to go near her; but, after 
I had waited some time, she made a most desperate effort, and suc¬ 
ceeded in rising. I availed myself of this opportunity of examin¬ 
ing her. 
Her ears and extremities were warm ; her pulse nearly 90; her 
mouth hot and feverish. I immediately abstracted ISlfes of blood, 
which for the time appeared to relieve her; the relief, however, 
was but transitory, for I had scarcely stopped the hemorrhage ere 
she again fell. The pain returned as acutely as ever, and with it 
the paralysis of the hind extremities. Her faeces were perfectly 
natural. 
I did not attempt to administer any medicine, as I felt convinced 
that the case was a hopeless one. Her struggles were the most 
violent I ever witnessed, and her breathing was such as would lead 
one to suppose that every respiration must be her last. In fact, I 
left her at half past ten o’clock without the most remote idea of ever 
seeing her again alive : she however continued until half past seven 
on the following morning, at which time, seeing there was not the 
shadow of a chance of her recovering, as she lay without the 
slightest power in her hind or fore extremities, I signed the death 
warrant for her execution, and she was slaughtered immediately. 
Upon a post-mortem examination I found the viscera, both in 
the thorax and abdomen, were perfectly healthy. The mem¬ 
branes of the brain, however, were highly injected, and the brain 
itself shewed evident symptoms of inflammation. There was con¬ 
siderable effusion of serum in the cavities of the cranium. The 
medulla oblongata appeared more highly inflamed than any other 
portion of the cerebral mass; and there was an effusion of serum 
throughout the whole course of the spinal canal, with a correspond¬ 
ing inflammation of the medulla spinalis. 
About three weeks ago, while the man was exercising her, she 
was suddenly attacked in the same manner, but in a slighter de¬ 
gree, and which attack disappeared almost as suddenly as it had 
made its appearance. Unfortunately no notice was taken of this, 
or the more severe and fatal attack might probably have been pre¬ 
vented. 
