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were dilated to their fall extent, and the mucous membrane thereof 
was of a dark purple colour; the breath which issued from the 
nostrils was cold; the muscles of the body and limbs were in a 
severe state of tremor; and partial cold sweats bedewed the parts 
externally; the perspiration also ran in drops from the hind extre¬ 
mities ; the nose, the ears, and limbs were deathy cold ; he stood 
obstinately in one place, and paddled the ground with the hind feet. 
The eyes had a strange wild look with them, and the pupils were 
fully expanded; every few moments he elevated his head, and 
neighed loudly. It was with difficulty he could be moved from 
where he stood; he appeared, in fact, in a state of half conscious¬ 
ness, or in a peculiar state of stupor. On applying my ear to the 
chest, I heard a blowing sound, but the sound had little or no hol¬ 
lowness in its tone; it was short, and dead in its character, and 
seemed to come entirely from the mere external surface of the 
lungs (for the sound from both sides and all parts of the chest was 
the same). From such a combination of well-developed symptoms, 
I concluded the case to be one, at first, of internal hemorrhage, and 
proceeded at once to administer a powerful stimulant, which con¬ 
sisted of half a pint of strong whiskey, diluted with about the same 
quantity of water; I then had the animal well clothed with thick 
rugs previously made warm; the extremities rubbed, and after¬ 
wards bandaged. In about twenty minutes after the stimulant was 
given, he appeared better; he ceased neighing, and also paddling 
with the hind feet, and I detected a feeble action in the arterv of 
the jaw; the stupor partially subsided, and he became more ma¬ 
nageable. These favourable symptoms, however, had but a tran¬ 
sitory duration; a state of weakness rapidly supervened ; the stupor 
again fully manifested itself, and the eye resumed its wild aspect; 
and about eleven o’clock he fell, and died almost without a struggle. 
Examination thirty minutes after Death. State of the Abdo¬ 
minal Viscera. —The stomach contained a small quantity of half- 
digested food ; the small intestines were nearly empty ; the csecum 
and colon contained a moderate portion of semifluid matter; the 
rectum was empty, or very near it. The mucous membrane of the 
small intestines exhibited here and there blotches of a faint 
crimson colour. I could not be certain that such colour was the 
result of disease; it amounted, in short, to no more than a faint 
blush : similar appearances were presented over the mucous tissue 
of the large bowels, but the blotches were not so numerous. The 
liver was large, pale in its colour, and very friable. I easily broke 
up its structure with my fingers, and the broken portions presented 
the granular texture so common to this organ in states of disease. 
State of the Thoracic Viscera. —On opening the chest and ex¬ 
hibiting its contents clearly to view, I was surprised at the state of 
