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A NEW MODE OF TREATING STAGGERS, 
improving: but I was not satisfied. He did not lie down, or 
appeared to suffer much in the attempt to lie down. He would 
take liquid food, but, after partly chewing that which was solid, 
he dropped it from his mouth. We gave him the powdered 
mustard as recommended by M. Huvellier. 
\7th .—There is little alteration. 
\Stli .—About the middle of the day he had another seeming 
attack of vertigo, which lasted about two hours; he then became 
calm, but new symptoms appeared. The mucous, inodorous 
fluid which the horse had discharged from the nostrils after the 
injections, had become exceedingly fetid, and his breath was very 
offensive. If he lay down, it was but for a moment; his respira¬ 
tion was laborious, and accompanied by a loud yet plaintive 
sound. When he stands up he is relieved, and a kind of calm 
succeeds. The patient after this remained standing until mid¬ 
night, when, again lying down, the same symptoms were exhibited, 
but with much greater violence. 
19M.—At two o’clock in the morning I was called by the guard. 
The horse was stretched on his litter, and his breathing seemed 
dreadfully laborious and agonizing. The pulse was scarcely to 
be detected. Much stinking mucus was collected about the 
nostrils, and more rattled in the bronchi and trachea. I opened 
the trachea, and then, on the supposition of a purulent effusion 
in the air passages, I introduced the canula of a syringe into the 
aperture, and, closing the nose and mouth of the animal, I drew 
up the piston. 1 repeated this several times without any result, 
and in an instant afterwards the animal died. 
On the dissection of this horse, the mucous membrane of 
the pyloric portion of the stomach was found to be stained of a 
yellow colour, and likewise exhibited traces of considerable in¬ 
flammation, the effect probably of the mustard. The small 
intestines were sound, and so were the larger ones, except that 
at the caput coli some black sand, a pound in weight, had col¬ 
lected and formed a partial obstruction: some portions of the 
ingesta were accumulated there, of greater consistence than was 
natural. The heart was larger than usual, without sensible altera¬ 
tion either in its substance or cavities ; but the pericardic bag was 
distended with serous fluid, of a light red colour. The plurae 
were comparatively unaffected. The substance of the lungs was 
slightly congested, and contained tubercles, for the most part of an 
indurated character. There was no considerable ulcer, or purulent 
reservoir, as I had expected ; nor was it easy to trace the source of 
the fetid purulent matter, a portion of which was still contained 
in the bronchi. It probably proceeded from some small tubercles 
