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from home at this time, my friend Mr. Youatt kindly attended 
in my place. He found her in an almost comatose state, her head 
pressing against the back part of the manger—the breathing 
laborious, and somewhat stertorous. She shrunk when the 
vertex of the occiput was handled with any degree of force, and 
there was an uncertain balancing motion as she stood. She 
was with considerable difficulty got round for the purpose of 
better examination and bleeding: the occiput was evidently hot,, 
and, being now a little roused, she would scarcely bear it to be 
touched. 
The jugular was opened, but, when nearly four quarts of blood 
were abstracted, the pulse faltered, and she began to stagger 
and to blow. The vein was immediately pinned up, and I being 
expected soon to return, the after-treatment was left to me. 
At half-past eleven o’clock (two hours subsequent To Mr. 
Youatt’s visit), I arrived at the stable. I found her with her head 
again thrust against the manger; lethargic—listless—senseless al¬ 
most; pulse slow and sluggish, but regular in its beat; pupils 
dilated; conjunctive membranes injected ; pituitary membrane, 
on the contrary, pale and bloodless ; breath cold; skin and extre¬ 
mities wanting their natural warmth. Being confined to the space 
of a stall, and that between two other horses, I was desirous for her 
to be removed, if possible, into a box not above fifty yards from 
the place. In our attempt to effect this, however, she fell, in turn¬ 
ing round backwards out of her stall, and came with her side, 
with great violence, against a corn-bin, which stood directly 
behind her. Here she lay so completely wedged in, that, without’ 
doing her some great .mischief, there was no possibility of 
effectino’ her removal: it was therefore thought best to knock 
down the partition between two stalls, and thus make a loose 
box for her in the very place where she lay. From this time, 
she became perfectly delirious, throwing herself about in all 
directions with terrific violence, and rendering all approach to 
her, while the paroxysm lasted, dangerous in the extreme. So 
soon as we durst attack her again, we securedher legs with hobbles, 
and thus rendered all her subsequent struggles and plunges 
to rise ineffectual, as well as void of injury both to herself and 
