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ters have caused considerable tumefaction over the poll and neck;, 
dung pultaceous; the neck still maintains its peculiar form and 
stiffness. Gave a gentle anodyne draught, and had her removed 
into a loose box. 
14/A.—This morning the pony appears in almost every respect 
as she did last night: eyes still amaurotic; pulse 74; respirations 
20 per minute ; has dunged once during the night; the blisters 
have acted moderately; extremities cold. This morning she com¬ 
menced wandering round the box. I again very carefully ex¬ 
amined the head; I pressed the frontal and parietal bones in every 
way, but failed to detect any evidence of fracture; yet I feel con¬ 
fident mischief must be going on within the cranium. Repeated 
injection, and gave, also, another opening draught. 
Nine o'clock, P. M. —No visible amendment: she purges a little, 
but refuses food of every kind; pulse 70 ; forehead hot; ears and 
extremities moderately warm; she continues at times to wander 
round the box: to apply cloths, dipped in cold water, to the fore¬ 
head, and to give her gruel to drink. 
15/A.—No better: she wanders incessantly round the box, and 
always from right to left: if I turn her head the other way, as soon 
as T leave loose of her she commences again in the old track. To¬ 
wards night she began to exhibit considerable weakness in the 
hind extremities; the pulse rose to 84, and respirations to 28 per 
minute. I again abstracted blood, until the pulse lost its hard cha¬ 
racter. I left her about nine o’clock, P.M., without perceiving any 
visible change for the better. 
16/A.—She continues to wander round the box in the same 
direction as yesterday ; spasmodic twitchings are present in the 
muscles of the hind limbs; a cold sweat covers the shoulders, the 
left side of the neck, and along the course of the back; pulse 90; 
respirations 32 per minute. For the first time since she was in¬ 
jured I am enabled to detect an interruption to the repiratory mur¬ 
mur through the right lung; her neck and head are still carried as 
rigid as ever. I had recourse to a number of remedies without any 
avail. About four o’clock in the afternoon she fell, and shortly after¬ 
wards became totally unconscious. I told the owner it was out of 
my power to render any further assistance, and strongly advised 
him to have her destroyed; he at once consented, and the mare was 
immediately killed with the knife. 
Examination immediately after Death.—Slate of the Nervous 
Centres: I carefully removed the skull-cap, so as to fully expose 
the brain and its membranes. The membranes covering the brain 
were intensely congested with vessels, and very little force sufficed 
to separate them from the nervous mass; a layer of effused serum 
was present between the pia mater and the brain; a quantity also 
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