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22d. 6 , a.m. — Worse; pulse 120, and feeble; eyes ready 
to start out of their orbits ; great swelling of belly; lies down 
all along; looks back; when up, paws, and is in excruciating 
pain ; refuses food, but drinks large quantities of tepid water. 
He has not rolled from the beginning. 
23d. Pulse, 120; evidently sinking; in great pain; up and 
down ; evacuations, sometimes of a natural consistence, at 
others liquid; opiates. He continued without much varia¬ 
tion in these symptoms until p.m. the 24th, when death 
ended his sufferings. 
Post-mortem , at 6, p.m. —Intestines from end to end con¬ 
tained pultaceous matter; no obstruction, adhesion or stric¬ 
ture in any part of them. In the caecum w-ere found eight 
small stones of a calcareous nature, weighing from 5SS to 
3j each; the mucous coat of this gut w 7 as highly inflamed. 
Stomach surprisingly inflated with gas, exactly like a blown 
bladder, occupying a large portion of the epigastric region; 
it also contained half a gallon of split beans, but slightly 
masticated, and not all digested. Its villous coat was in¬ 
tensely inflamed in patches. 
Observations. —Undoubtedly, the stomach had lost its con- 
tractile and digestive pow T ers from the onset, otherwise it 
would not have taken 3hj of Barb. Aloes, 3iij of Hyd. Sub- 
mur., and Oiij of Ol. Ricini to operate on the bowels. The 
beans never moved, nor w 7 ere acted upon from the time they 
were swallowed, which was owing to two causes, viz., the 
great quantity taken at the time, a huge mass of vetches 
being jammed into the bow r els. The owner has since told 
me, he has ascertained that the man in charge of his horses, 
on the afternoon before this horse’s illness, gave them as 
many vetches as they would eat, and after that as many 
beans as they could possibly cram down. So much for the 
management of waggon horses, of which this is one of a 
numerous class. Waggoners are so sceptical and profoundly 
ignorant that they think unless a horse’s bowels be filled 
out and on a level with their hip bones, they have a mean 
appearance, and are not capable of a hard day’s work. No 
persuasion can root out the strong prejudices of waggoners 
in Regard to the feeding of cart horses. 
Case II.— Concussion of the Brain. 
Supposed to have been occasioned by a kick from another 
horse while lying out in a field. I saw him on the 21st 
ult. He was lying down at full length, struggling, and 
unable to rise, and could not stand when hoisted up, his 
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