PURPURA HAEMORRHAGIC A. 
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dark-red spots; discharge from nostrils less, legs and ears 
warm, bowels relaxed, faeces of the natural colour, cough 
nearly gone; she still eats but little, lies down regularly, but 
appears dull and weak. 
About one o'clock of the same day, I was summoned in 
haste by the attendant to go and see the mare, who he said 
was bleeding from both nostrils, and dying. I went imme¬ 
diately, and found the animal reeling about the box, with 
mouth open, and making great efforts to breathe; a bloody 
fluid was trickling from both nostrils, which were clogged up 
with fibrinous matter, resembling that sometimes found in 
the ventricles of the heart after death in some debilitating 
diseases, and tears were flowing profusely from both eyes. 
I removed several large clots from the nostrils, but finding 
it gave no relief, and to prevent the animal dying from suffo¬ 
cation, which would speedily have ensued, I at once per¬ 
formed tracheotomy. This afforded immediate relief; and 
as the animal was much prostrated, I gave Spt. Ether. 
IS it. §ij in water, and ordered an attendant not to leave her. 
Up to this time no swelling had shown itself on any part 
of the body, except the slight enlargement of the submax¬ 
illary glands, existing from the first. 
23d.—During the night the animal has been very restless, 
frequently lying down and getting up again; the servant 
has had great difficulty in keeping the tube in the trachea; 
the face and lips have now become much swollen, so much 
so that the mouth could but be very slightly opened ; the 
breathing is 27 in a minute, and carried on entirelv through 
the tube; the nostrils are clogged up, bloody fluid is running 
slowly from them ; the tears are tinged with blood, and fall¬ 
ing fast from both eyes ; the pulse 90, and feeble, the bowels 
much relaxed ; she refuses all food, and has slight swellings 
about the knees and hocks in patches. From this time the 
animal gradually got worse ; the swelling increased about the 
face to such an extent as to completely close the mouth, and 
she died on the morning of the 26th. 
Postmortem, exummation .—Being much engaged, I deferred 
the examination of the body until the following day, giving 
strict orders that it was to remain until I came to open it. 
Whether the attendant supposed that there was nothing in 
the head to be seen, I know not, but on going to examine the 
body on the following day, I found that the head had been 
cut off, and given to some hungry greyhounds, so that a 
very interesting part of the autopsy must be omitted. 
The skin being removed, nothing particular was observablej 
except numerous red patches in the cellular tissue, about 
