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contents of the stomach through the nostrils; his countenance 
indicating much suffering; breatli exceedingly foetid; extremities 
very cold; yet his breathing, as observed at the flank, is but 
little increased. 
I will not enter further into the details of the treatment, but 
merely observe, that a draught composed of ol. lini, spt. sether. 
et tinct. opii was administered, which relieved the symptoms of 
nausea. He does not appear to flinch when pressed on the 
sides of the chest; nor will auscultation enable me to detect any 
fluid in the thoracic cavity. 
He continued much in the same state, refusing all food, but 
drinking gruel, until the 
27/A, when a return of the vomiting and nausea occurred. 
Relief was obtained by repeating the draught as before. 
He is frequently found lying down, and, when standing, is 
incessantly pawing with his fore feet; his breathing not ap¬ 
parently quickened. He was getting gradually weaker, daily, 
from this period to the 
31s/, when he died, not having eaten a pound of solid food 
since the 13th of the month. 
AUTOPSIA. —The abdominal viscera healthy, excepting the 
liver and stomach : the former being wasted and clayey, and 
the mucous coat of the latter slightly inflamed. 
The thoracic viscera were much diseased. A little fluid, 
amounting to but a few ounces, was found in the chest. The 
pleura costalis was in a gangrenous condition. The vessels of 
the mediastinum, pleura pulmonalis, and pericardium, were 
singularly injected, and turgid, having the appearance of being 
injected artificially. The heart presented a pale yet otherwise 
normal aspect. The pericardial sac free from fluid. The lungs 
sound in substance, of a healthy colour and density, the pleurae 
pulmonalis and costalis, with the reflected mediastinal membrane, 
being alone affected ; the vessels of which possessed the peculiar 
turgid and injected character before alluded to, which was pro¬ 
bably more observable from the absorption of the adipose and 
areolar tissues of these parts, caused by a protracted illness and 
the loss of appetite, and consequent inability of the animal to 
supply the system with nutrition. 
Remarks .—This case presents, I opine, some rather un¬ 
common features: such as the nausea and vomiting occurring 
so long before dissolution took place; the absence of per¬ 
ceptible pain on pressure to the sides of the chest; the com¬ 
parative tranquil state of the respiration during, with one ex¬ 
ception, the course of the disease; also the absence of adhe¬ 
sions, lymph, and fluid, in the thoracic cavity. 
I would, Mr. Editor, ask, if the nausea and vomiting 
