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Judging from the appearance of the place where it had been 
confined and from the state of the jaws it was evident that 
vomiting had taken place. Examination was made next 
day. There was no morbid appearance in the brain; no mor¬ 
bid appearance indeed was detected anywhere except in the 
stomach, and that afforded a striking contrast to the other parts 
of the intestinal canal. These were of their natural white colour, 
while the stomach was of a vivid red, showing a high state of 
vascularity, great local determination, and intense inflammatory 
congestion. As the inflamed part presented no distinguishing pe¬ 
culiarity, it was not considered worth while to employ an artist 
to copy it. The stomach was inflamed throughout, and the in¬ 
flammation extended from the cardia to the pylorus, not uni¬ 
form however in degree, for the redness was greater at the larger 
end. This effect is so constant when all parts of the stomach have 
been equally exposed to the action of irritants as to induce the 
belief that there must be some difference in the vascularity of 
the two portions. The author had originally supposed that this 
inequality in the action of irritants was probably owing to the 
greater rapidity with which all matters passed over this part of 
the digestive tube, but he was inclined to believe from the di¬ 
minished redness in this case that some other cause, and that 
probably a lower degree of vascularity, exists in this situation. 
Although it may be presumed that the alcohol contained in 
the antimonial wine had delayed the effect of the tartarized anti¬ 
mony, yet it does not appear at all to have mitigated it, as it 
could hardly have been supposed a priori that death would have 
taken place in a dog from two grains of tartar emetic. 
Dr. Roupell states that he made many other experiments 
which did not furnish results sufficiently precise to merit enume¬ 
ration, or to which the effect produced could be distinctly re¬ 
ferred to one cause. Thus when a solution of metallic salts 
have been injected into the veins, as the tinctura ferri- 
muriatis, or the liquor plumbi acetatis, death has been quick¬ 
ly occasioned and the mucous membranes of the abdomen have 
presented a marked red appearance; but he has been unable to 
satisfy himself how far such changes were due to the presence of 
the metallic oxide, or how far they were the simple consequence 
of the acid. Either of these substances would produce one ef¬ 
fect, the immediate coagulation of the blood, or would predispose 
to that condition. Not indeed that the mere coagulation of the 
blood in the veins will occasion any alteration whatever in the 
mucous membranes, none at least has been observed from the 
injection of the substance which has the greatest power in coagu¬ 
lating albumen, 44 kreosote,” into the saphaena vein. No altera- 
