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used an injection of tobacco smoke. These measures combined 
were productive of good; the pain, in a great measure, subsided; 
she lay down apparently at ease for many hours. I saw her be¬ 
tween eleven and twelve o’clock P.M. ; she was then down, and 
had been for a long time; the pulse, however, maintained an ex¬ 
cited character. 
4 th, Eight o'clock , A.M. —This morning I learned that the mare 
appeared to remain easy from the time I left her last night to 
within the last half hour. From the period I last saw her to the 
present she has not dunged ; but she has staled once. Now she is 
evidently suffering under a return of pain ; she paws the ground ; 
jerks her head upwards in a very impatient manner; the extremi¬ 
ties are moderately warm at the first touch; but if the hand is 
held upon any part of one for a time, a coldness is perceived, of 
a character which I scarcely know how to describe; pulse 76, and 
easily compressed; respirations 17 per minute; no dung in the 
rectum, and very little contractile force in the bowel. Repeated 
the tobacco enema; fomentation with hot water to be again re¬ 
peated; hand-rub the extremities. Gave the following in a 
drench :— 
R Aloes Barb.3ij 
Ol. erotoni .M.xx 
Spt. nitre.Jij 
Aquae .Jvj 
After the fomentation, when the abdomen was become dry, I 
rubbed in over its entire length about four ounces of mustard mixed 
in four or five ounces of strong vinegar. In spite, however, of 
every measure to the contrary, the mare gradually became weaker, 
and the disease gained strength. She continued through the day, 
sometimes better and at other times worse: she died during the 
night. The symptoms, from the beginning to the close, varied but 
little, and she never dunged during the whole course of the 
disease. 
Examination , eleven hours after death. Digestive Organs :— 
The stomach was about half filled with food, and in a semifluid 
state; in the midst of the mass was a portion of a ball I had given 
to her some hours before. The mucous membrane of the stomach 
was very white in colour; the same also with the mucous mem¬ 
brane of the small intestines. The small intestines contained 
brown semi-fluid matter, and a great deal of gas; at the termination 
of the ileum were three black spots, each of about the size of a 
five-shilling piece. The blackness was common to all the tissues 
of the bowel in that particular part. The coecuin exhibited a large 
black spot, similar to the above described; in every other respect it 
was normal. The colon for about twelve or fourteen inches in length 
