THE JEJUNUM. 
321 
In the afternoon of the 7th ultimo, I was informed by the 
farrier-major that King William (the horse was so called by the 
regiment) was labouring under an attack of gripes. I went to 
his stable, and found him stretched at full length in his stall; his 
mouth hot, ears and extremities cold, pulse 38, and but slightly 
altered, breathing perfectly tranquil. Whilst examining him, he 
raised himself on his haunches, then got up, walked about, 
looked anxiously at his flanks, and again lay down ; and I was told 
he had made several ineffectual attempts to stale. Ten pounds of 
blood were withdrawn, some spirits of turpentine and opium ad¬ 
ministered, injections, friction to legs, See. By ten o’clock that 
night he had voided some urine; the symptoms, however, were 
unaltered ; no faeces were passed save what had been brought off' 
by the injections. I now had the whole surface of the abdomen 
blistered, and 6 lbs. more blood abstracted, injections continued, 
frictions, Sec. Next mornino- I found the animal in the same 
state in which I had left him the previous night, except that he 
appeared to evince more internal pain. I ascertained that the 
bladder was nearly empty, nor could I discover any thing in it to 
account for the continuance of the animal’s sufferings: the rec¬ 
tum was empty, and no fasces had been passed through the night. 
Five drachms of aloes, in solution, were now given, stimulating 
injections thrown up, frictions continued, and, as he ate nothing, 
he was drenched with oatmeal gruel: he constantly dipped his 
nose, during the day, into a bucket of water, then withdrawing 
it, would curl his upper lip in a very peculiar manner : pulse 40, 
breathing natural; he loathed all sorts of food. He had several 
shivering fits towards evening—at night he was no better : next 
morning he was much weaker; he still continued to move about 
the box, sometimes at rest, then lying down, and frequently sit¬ 
ting up like a dog. He occasionally passed small quantities of 
urine, but the aloes had had no effect: pulse 40, rather thready; 
breathing natural. V. S. six pounds; aloes in solution five 
drachms, and opium half a drachm ; some fresh grass was offered 
to him, but he refused to eat it. The weakness increased rapidly, 
the shivering fits were more frequent; his eye betrayed much 
internal pain; at length it assumed a dim desponding appearance ; 
and he lay down, and died without a struggle. 
Such were the more marked symptoms which attended my 
patient through his illness. I shall now endeavour to describe the 
post-mortem appearances. 
I first opened the cavity of the abdomen : the intestinal canal 
was less distended than I had anticipated ; on drawing out the 
contents ol the abdomen, this was easily accounted for. There 
