450 CONSULTATION-COLIC, ENTERITIS, PNEUMONIA. 
I left the mare apparently well, though not eating much, at 
nine o’clock p.m., with orders to observe her before they went 
to bed. 
13^^.—The mare having been again taken ill during the 
night, I was sent for at six o’clock a.m., and on my arrival 
found the spasms more frequent and protracted, and the pulse 
58 and very hard. I again abstracted blood, three pints and a 
half Scotch; gave five drachms of Barbadoes aloes in solution; 
fomented her belly ; back-raked her, and threw up clysters very 
frequently. 
In this way we emptied her bowels of much dry faeces and 
unmasticated corn, that seemed to have been impacted in 
them. The mare having no appetite for mashes or tepid water, 
and the constipation not being overcome to my satisfaction, I 
gave afterwards, at three different times, one drachm of aloes 
in two quarts of tepid water. 
Uth ,—At nine o’clock a.m. the physic operated, and the 
violent symptoms of pain abated, leaving the mare dull and 
quiet, with very little appetite. She continued in that state till 
seven o’clock p.m., when she was seized with a rigor or cold fit, 
during which I gave her two drachms of sweet spirit of nitre, 
applied friction to her body generally, and bandaged her legs, 
which were clay cold: but a hot fit speedily succeeded, with 
laborious breathing, and the pulse rose to 80, but was small. The 
labour of breathing soon went off, but the pulse rather increased. 
I gave two drachms of tartar emetic, and three drachms of nitre. 
15M.—There were no local symptoms until 10 o’clock p.m., 
when her lungs appeared to me to be seriously affected. The 
pulse was 85, and somewhat oppressed, and the limbs cold as 
ice. I abstracted blood one pint Scotch (two quarts); blistered 
her sides, bandaged her legs, hooded her head, and endeavoured, 
as far as possible, to equalize the circulation. I then gave one 
drachm and a half of digitalis, with two drachms of nitre. 
\Qth ,—She appeared a little easier, but very weak, and with¬ 
out appetite. 
\7th .—She was extremely weak; there was a peculiar twitch¬ 
ing of the muscles of the left shoulder, a grating of her teeth, 
a strange irregular action of her heart, and a fluttering pulse, 
accompanied with expressions of anxiety in her countenance. 
18^/z.—She died this morning, at four o’clock. 
Post-mortem Examination .—The intestines presented few 
marks of inflammation. There was dark venous blood injected 
into the cellular texture of the lungs, and inflammatory spots on 
their surface. The pleura generally was heightened in colour, 
and there appeared to be a more than ordinary (juantity of serum 
