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In spite of treatment, general and local, this state of the wound, 
and this secondary excitation of the genital organs, continued 
until the 15th of the same month, when she became perfectly 
exhausted. She had not lain down since her accident; but 
she now fell on her litter. An abscess was evidently formed on 
the inner part of the affected limb, extending from the original 
wound half way down the leg. It was opened, and a consider¬ 
able quantity of pus evacuated. 
A remission of these violent symptoms now took place, but it 
did not continue long; for, on the 17th, she evidently suffered 
acute pain in the originally injured part: there were spasmodic 
contractions of the limb, and general febrile reaction, and parti¬ 
cularly an erythism of the genital organs, violent almost beyond 
belief. 
Among other modes of treatment, we dressed the wounds with 
tincture of opium, and administered opium internally; but with¬ 
out the slightest benefit. 
In the night of the 20th, gangrene began to appear, and the 
mare died almost suddenly. On opening her, beside the ex¬ 
pected lesions in the wounded limb, we found all the internal 
parts of generation in a state of extreme inflammation and en¬ 
gorgement. 
It appears, then, that although furor uterinus is of rarer occur¬ 
rence in the domestic quadruped than in the human female, it 
ought to find a place in our nosology; and it should be ranged 
in the li^t of maniacal affections, especially when it is complicated 
with a degree of excitation which is produced by no other cause. 
If the facts which I have related, and the conclusions which 
I have ventured to draw from them, are not sufficient to prove 
the existence of different kinds of mania in quadrupeds, some 
physiological considerations may be adduced in confirmation of 
my opinion. I have reserved these for the latter part of my 
essay, not only because they appear to me to have great weight, 
but because they are founded on undoubted facts, and admitted 
to be so by authors of the highest authority. 
M. Gall has demonstrated that, to the exclusion of every other 
part of the general system, the brain is the source or instrument 
of every intellectual faculty and moral quality. He has proved 
that there are in the brain as many separate organs as there are 
faculties and propensities in the living being; and that, conse¬ 
quently, the variety of dispositions and jiowers, whether intellec¬ 
tual or instinctive, are in ])roportion, in different subjects, to the 
differences and modifications which are found in the develop¬ 
ment and relative predominance of tlie various parts of the brain. 
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