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shortly after blistering; and after bleeding the pulse fell to 76. 
She was removed from the stall to a small house, where she kept 
turning always to the left side, and slowly went round by the 
wall, stopping a little at a small open window. The eyes ap¬ 
peared quite right, and she took notice of every thing around her. 
She continued in the same way till about ten o’clock, when she 
suddenly made a rush forward to a corner, fell, and expired with 
a violent struggle. 
I was convinced from the first that the lungs were affected; 
but the legs, ears, and nose remained moderately warm during the 
whole of the time. The pulse was also rather fuller than it 
usually is in inflammation of the lungs; neither did I ever see 
these spasms, or intervals of acute pain and comparative quiet, 
and without any dulness in the countenance; and although it 
was thought at first to have been founder, and there was consi¬ 
derable stifthess of the legs, yet there was no heat of the feet, no 
pulsating of the artery at the pastern, and no inclination to lie 
down. It was such a case as I had never met with before, 
nor have I ever seen an account of such an one; therefore, 
immediately after death I proceeded to examine the body. 
I found the abdominal viscera perfectly healthy. Many large 
white spots were on the muscular portion of the diaphragm, 
which I conjectured to be produced by some former disease. On 
opening the thorax I was surprised at the extreme smallness of 
the lungs (some of the bystanders saying they were no larger 
than a sow’s). This was produced by the anterior parts being 
collapsed, but with numberless emphysematous appearances 
under the pleura, apparently from rupture of the air cells. 
The posterior parts were a little inflamed, but not so much so as 
to cause death ; indeed, I believe the cause of death must be 
sought not in the disease of any particular part, but in general 
and overwhelming irritation. 
October 13, 1834. 
A CASE OF INFLAMMATION OF THE CGECUM AND 
COLON, CONTEMPORANEOUS WITH UNDUE 
SECRETION OF MILK, IN A MARE. 
Bif M. Felix Vogely, U.N., Lyoiis. 
A RED sorrel mare, about eight or nine years old, belonging 
to the artillery, was shewn at mv weekly inspection on the 28th 
of .lime 1834 : she had had during the last month an unusual 
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