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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PATHOLOGY AND 
to the owner’s account, the quantity of brown watery matter which 
she continued to part with was really incredible. In returning 
home, about half-past four o’clock, and when near the town, she 
began to stagger, and exhibit a state approaching unconsciousness; 
she was immediately unharnessed, and with great difficulty got 
home. 
Present Symptoms. —The animal is standing in the stall; its 
limbs wide apart; the body has a slight swinging motion; the 
nose is held near the ground, and the head is placed between the 
fore legs; the neck is thrust very close to the manger; every now 
and then the pony neighs, and pushes its neck with greater force 
against the wood-work; the respiration is slow and heaving; the 
extremities are icy cold; the pupils are dilated, and the eyes in¬ 
sensible to the light of a candle; the pulse cannot be detected at 
the jaw, nor the action of the heart against the ribs of the left side. 
If I attempt to move the animal, her limbs appear useless; she 
staggers, and would fall if not held up; the mucous membrane of 
the nose is blue, and the breath is cold; partial sweats cover 
many parts of the body; rumbling sounds are heard in the abdo¬ 
men, which is swollen and tense; the mouth dry and cold, and the 
tongue a little soapy. 
Treatment. —My treatment consisted in the giving of powerful 
stimulants, and doing every thing I could to rouse and keep up 
the vital energies; but all proved abortive; the animal fell, and 
after remaining in a state of complete stupor for many hours, she 
died. 
Examination six hours after Death. State of the Digestive 
Organs. —The stomach was capacious, and contained a large 
quantity of food, consisting of corn and hay, which did not appear 
to have undergone the least change from the action of the gastric 
juice; the cuticular and villous surfaces of the organ were pale, 
and free over every part from any redness of colour; this, in fact, 
was the general state of the entire mucous surface of the intestinal 
canal, save one small portion at the termination of the duodenum, 
at which part a small bulbous-looking projection existed; and on 
laying open the bowel, I found it to arise from a ball of half- 
digested hay, closely impacted in a fold of the intestine ; and that 
portion of the mucous surface in immediate contact with it was 
deeply injected with blood, and a thin layer of blood also coated 
the surface of the hay: beyond this the small intestines were 
empty. The csecum and colon contained a great quantity of fecal 
matter in a semifluid state. I never saw organs present so blood¬ 
less an appearance before; and the same fact I observed with 
respect to the body in general, when the skin was removed. 
Contents of the Chest. —The lungs contained a quantity of dark 
