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patient to a covered shed. Each motion of the joints caused a 
noise loud enough to he heard at a distance of til teen or twent y 
paces; the eyes were fixed, and insensible to the touch ; there 
were partial sweats at the arms and on the chest, and increased 
stiffness of the vertebral column. At nine o’clock there was a 
second fit. The horse rushed forward with the greatest violence, 
in spite of all our efforts to hold him; his eyes were protruding, 
the conjunctiva red. He then fell suddenly; tried to rise; fell 
again, and died in the most dreadful convulsions. The subtrac¬ 
tion of ten pounds of blood, embrocations with a mixture of oil of 
turpentine and tincture of cantharides, pumping of cold water on 
his head, and irritating injections, could not, in the least degree, 
arrest the progress of this disease. The only morbid appearance 
which M. Forthomme found was about four ounces of serous 
liquid, and very limpid, in the ventricular cavities of the brain ; 
and he thought that the disease must have existed some time. 
This is the more likely to be true, as the horse had been very 
viciously disposed ; so that from the 28th of March 1827, to the 
11th of March 1829, he had done very little work ; and that par¬ 
ticularly during some unusual heat he fell all at once, and then 
quickly rose, and seemed to be as well as before. 
Journal Theoretique et Pratique, 
Pulmonary Congestion following Hypertrophy of the 
left Ventricle of the Heart. 
By M. Liegard. 
After having' been in excellent condition, and fully capable 
of w ork, a mare, eleven years, old, belonging to a troop of chas¬ 
seurs, became gradually, from July 1828, so thin and weak, that 
in September she was no longer able to take common exercise. 
M. Liegard took four pounds of blood, and gave for nourish¬ 
ment chaff, and water whitened with bran or barley meal. Al¬ 
though the mare seemed to find benefit from this regimen, she 
had, on the 29th of September, an acute attack of disease charac¬ 
terized by the following symptoms:—The neck extended ; the 
head supported by the edge of the manger ; the pulse small 
and wiry; conjunctiva red, bordering on black; respiration 
very laborious and sonorous; the flanks heaving considerably; 
extreme dilatation of the nostrils; cold sweats, very abundant; 
and the temperature of the whole frame extremely low. After a 
first bleeding of six pounds the animal fell into a syncope, and 
could not rise for nearly a quarter of an hour. Setons were 
applied to the chest, and four more pounds of blood taken; 
