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A CASK OF ENTERITIS, &c. ' 
He was a valuable, well-bred animal, and always kept in superior 
condition. Immediately after returning, and during the time the 
lad employed as groom was taking off the harness, he was 
apparently attacked with acute abdominal pain : this was about 
1 A. M. 
As Mr. Stanborough^s stables are situated nearly a quarter of 
a mile from his residence, and that gentleman had not gone into 
them after his return, he was unaware of the illness of his fa¬ 
vourite, and, I am sorry to add, was not apprised of it until 
several hours afterwards. The boy remained with the horse 
during the subsequent part of what may be termed night, the 
pain continuing, and the poor animal rolling about his box until 
about (I A. M., when some of the men coming on the premises, 
sent to a farrier close by, who attended the case. Immediately 
upon Mr. S. being informed of what had happened he came 
promptly to my infirmary, and I proceeded to his stables, after 
having dispensed such medicines as I thought necessary. 
I found my patient in a comfortable loose box, with the farrier 
and others in attendance ; but it was too evident, from the first 
glance I had of him when my eye caught his, that our efforts to 
save him w'ould be of no avail. 
That I might not be considered as giving a hasty and not well- 
considered opinion, I examined our patient more closely. The 
extremities were deathy cold—profuse perspiration was issuing 
from every pore—the mouth was clammy, and firmly closed—the 
conjunctival and Schneiderian membranes were of a scarlet 
colour—the pulse was not to be numbered at the jaw, but was 
about 120 in a minute when carefully examined at the side—the 
eye was expressive of the greatest suffering, speaking, in fact, the 
language of despair, and telling me I had come too late. He 
would rise, look to his poor agonizing sides, and,* reasoning within 
himself, paw the Utter under his abdomen until it was raised so 
as nearlij to touch ity and then with the greatest care he would 
drop himself upon his bed ; and when dowm he would soon throw 
himself on his side, raise his head, and turn it to the seat of his 
principal torture. These were the symptoms, and I at once 
stated my inability to give relief. 
* He was evidently constructing^ the softest pillow on which to rest his 
tortured frame, and how he should best avoid the agony which the slightest 
concussion would produce. It was a plain proof to me, that the faculty of 
reason is extended to these inferior animals—our poor, neglected, ill-used 
patients; and which proud and presumptuous man considers as ordained 
to he his slaves, Man, vain man, contemplate the animal creation with 
which thou art surrounded, and many a lesson, and many a reproof wilt 
tlnm receive ! With all thy mental powers, thou art not so superior as thou 
wouldst be thought. 
