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blood, but not more, I think, than what is usually found in cases 
of disease after death : they were crepitous, and free from all 
change in their structure. The heart was normal; its left ventri¬ 
cle contained a little coagulated blood. When divested of its 
vessels, fat, &c. (of which there was only a very small quantity) 
it weighed six pounds nine ounces and a half avoidupois. 
Brain , 8$c. —The brain I examined in detail very carefully, but 
failed to detect any thing peculiar about it; its superficial veins 
were filled with dark blood, and about a table spoonful of serum 
existed at the base of the organ; its ventricles were healthy and 
its substance firm. The nerves and spinal cord I did not examine. 
Case III. 
Jan . Ylth , 1845.—Was requested to attend upon a post-horse 
in the town. 
History , 8$c. —The animal is a black one, eleven years of age, 
and has belonged to the present owner about four months, who re¬ 
sides a considerable distance from here. The common employment 
of the horse was that of running an omnibus: for several days past 
he has stood at rest in the stable. This morning he was fed as 
usual, and immediately after eating his food he was harnessed 
and driven with a heavy chaise from the residence of the owner 
to this town, a distance of fourteen miles; and the day being wet, 
and the atmosphere very close, the animal in coming into the 
town was greatly distressed, and all at once he manifested symp¬ 
toms of illness; he was now put up as speedily as possible, and I 
was requested to attend. 
Present Symptoms. —The horse stands in the stable with the 
fore and hind extremities so placed as though he was about to 
stale. The head is held down, and the neck is pressed close to 
the wall, against which he pushes with all his force; partial sweats 
are visible; the limbs are deathy cold, and on placing my ear 
against the chest, in whatever part I choose, a loud, blowing, and 
rumbling noise is heard. On pulling the animal back, so as to 
free the neck from the wall, I find the pupils of the eyes dilated, 
the Schneiderian membrane blue, and the pulse beating at 30 per 
minute: the action of the artery is peculiar; the pulse is like a 
wave under the finger; its motion is slow, strong, and heaving ; 
the mouth is clammy, and the respirations are 16 per minute. 
When the head was liberated, he first turned his nose close to the 
back part of the elbow-joint of the left side, at which side he 
seemed to look with an expression of countenance indicative of 
deep pain and anxiety. 
Treatment , Sjc. —My treatment consisted at first of bleeding, 
