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ration laborious, orthopnoea and continued colic. The mare 
attempted to bite every one that came near her; she struck 
the ground with her feet, frequently attempted to lie down, 
but hardly touched the litter before she was up again. The 
vomitings succeeded each other in from four to five minutes' 
intervals; and every time she brought up from two to three 
decilitres of fluid mixed with particles of food. The vomiting 
increased the difficulty of respiration, the efforts were most 
violent and were accompanied by a sharp cry, and sometimes 
with a violent fit of coughing. At 6 o'clock, about an hour 
after the first attack, there was great prostration, the head 
was low, the eyes half closed, the sight dim, the mucous 
membrane purple, the body covered with a cold perspiration; 
the colic,however, had abated, and the efforts to vomitwere less 
frequent. The escape of the liquid from the nostrils was con¬ 
tinual, but in small quantity, the respiration short and quick, 
noisy and laborious, the beating of the heart violent, the re¬ 
spiratory murmur was diminished in some parts and increased 
in others. The diagnosis was acute gastritis, with a ruptured 
stomach or diaphragm ; the congestion of the lungs led to the 
latter conclusion. Considering the case hopeless, no treatment 
was recommended. The rejection of the contents of the 
stomach continued until 5 p.m. the next day, but with very 
slight efforts at vomiting ; on the next morning she died about 
11 o'clock. An hour before death the discharge from the 
nostrils consisted of dark-coloured blood, this continued until 
death. The mare now lay down, and died in about twenty 
minutes. The autopsy was made three hours after death, when 
the stomach was found to be of the usual size and to contain 
about four to five litres of liquid, and some solid food ; the mu¬ 
cous membrane of the right sac was of a purple-red colour, it 
was thickened, and there were eight ulcers of the size of a golden 
five-franc piece each ; they were not very deep, but were of an 
intense red. The mucous membrane, part of the peritoneum, 
the colon, and the small intestines, presented traces of in¬ 
flammation. The oesophagus was flabby, and at its insertion 
in the stomach, and also at that portion which is situated in 
the mediastinum between the lobes of the lungs, it was dis¬ 
tended, and contained a small quantity of food. The dia¬ 
phragm presented some incomplete transversal rents situated 
near the tendinous portion ; the smallest were from five to 
six centimetres in length and one in breadth; they pene¬ 
trated to one half the thickness of the substance of the coat 
of the organ. Two thirds of the lungs were gorged with 
blood, the mucus of the trachea was of a dark-purple colour, 
which was attributed to the blood that had escaped from the 
