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to the manger ; he occasionally paddles with the hind feet, and 
every minute or two he gives utterance to a loud neigh; the mem¬ 
brane of the nose is blue, and the breath cold; the pupils of the 
eyes dilated, and the eyes themselves insensible to light; the pulse 
is gone at the jaw, neither can I detect the action of the heart 
against the left side. On applying my ear to the chest, no matter 
over what part, rumbling and blowing sounds are heard; the ani¬ 
mal is doggedly stupid, and it requires great exertion to move him. 
Treatment.-— In this case I used every means in my power to 
rouse the vital energies. I administered a large dose of brandy 
and warm water; set three men to hand-rub and clothe him 
warmly; but all the measures I could adopt proved abortive, and 
the animal died about half-past nine o’clock the same evening. 
Examination twelve hours after Death. Abdominal Viscera .— 
The stomach contained but little food, and that appeared in a 
forward state of digestion. The small intestines were nearly 
empty, and a large portion of their mucous surface was of a dark 
dull red-looking colour. The large intestines contained a deal of 
fecal matter in a liquid state, and when I opened them a large 
quantity of gas was liberated ; but I failed to detect in their tissues 
any signs of inflammatory action. 
State of the Lungs , Heart , fyc. —On opening the chest and 
fully exposing its contents, I was surprised at the great bulk of the 
lungs. On cutting into their substance, every portion of them 
appeared crammed with blood, which blood was black to a degree : 
some of it was semifluid, and resembled treacle or tar; other por¬ 
tions, again, were coagulated in long small masses of about the 
thickness of a tobacco pipe. The trachea and bronchial tubes con¬ 
tained frothy spume, and the mucous membrane of these parts was 
much injected, and of a blue colour. The heart was firm in its 
muscular substance ; both its ventricles were filled with the dark 
blood peculiar to the lungs; and the serous membrane lining these 
cavities was of a dark blue tint, which tint, I believe, was owing 
to the tissue being in immediate contact with the dark blood; for 
nothing of the kind was present on the serous membrane lining 
the auricles; the valves and bloodvessels of the organ were per¬ 
fectly healthy, and its weight, when divested of the above, was 
exactly seven pounds eleven ounces avoirdupois. The pleura 
costalis was normal, and the chest contained about one pint of 
serum. 
The Brain. —The vessels of the brain were full of blood, which 
was not so dark as that contained in the lungs and the heart. A 
small quantity of serum existed at the base of the organ, and the 
left lateral ventricle contained a very small portion likewise ; its 
