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in tlie pulse or the breathing. I listened to the heart ; its con¬ 
tractions were powerful, loud, and regular; but the organ was 
evidently much oppressed. The faeces are in a good state, and 
the medicine keeps up the secretion of the kidneys. 
Fifth clay, —No change ; and it w^as evident she could not live. 
I was confident there would be an explanation in full on dissec¬ 
tion. 
Sixth day. —The warmth of the body and extremities genial 
as in health. The blood in the jugular is considerable, and 
would, if required, afford a copious stream ; but she looks aghast, 
and must die of suffocation in a few hours. Late in the evening 
she died. 
Post-mortem examination. —Nothing remarkable presented it¬ 
self in the brain, beyond a little turgescence of the vessels. I 
proceeded to open the chest by raising the sternum, and brought 
the pericardium into view, quite entire. I carefully exposed the 
heart by an incision into the pericardium. The sac contained a 
small quantity of healthy fluid. The right side of the heart was 
considerably enlarged, particularly the.right ventricle, and without 
softening of the walls. It was a fine specimen of hypertrophy of 
the right auricle and ventricle.—The lungs were next examined : 
both the right and left lobes were of a pale red healthy-looking 
colour, but in bulk apparently too large for the space allotted 
them in the thoracic cavity ; their investing pleurae, together 
with the pleurae costales, shewed no trace of increased vascularity; 
in fact, the pleurae were quite healthy, and but a small portion 
of serous fluid occupied the thoracic cavities. I carefully removed 
the lungs from the chest, and laid them upon a table. They 
w'ere very heavy. On cutting into them, a transparent serous 
fluid ran freely from their intercellular structure. This oedema 
of the lungs extended throughout their whole extent. In the ca¬ 
vity of the abdomen the viscera were quite healthy. 
[To be continued.] 
A CASE OF NEPHRITIS. 
By Mr. Joseph Toombs, Jun., F.-S., Great Barrington. 
November 10, 1832.—A cart gelding, six years old, refused 
his food ; was dull, with quick pulse, laborious breathing, stiffness 
about the loins, and shifting his hind legs. He lies down the 
greater part of his time. The urine is high coloured, and in 
considerable quantity; but the horse does not evince pain when 
pressed on the loins. Six quarts of blood were abstracted ; the 
