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TUMOUR IN THE BRAIN OF A HORSE. 
regular. Body and extremities warm, llefuses to take 
citlier food or water. The pain at intervals is more violent, 
leading to her turning sharply round the box, or pressing 
the head against the ^yalI, stamping and scraping with her 
fore feet, or trying to put them in the manger. At times 
she appears very dull and stupid, and is with difficulty made 
to move, even if touched with the whip. No faeces can be 
felt in tlie rectum. 
Repeated the enemas. 
As the symptoms were so much like those of the case 
reported by me in the Vetermarian for November, my im¬ 
pression was that I had a similar one to contend with, and 
not an ordinary one of indigestion, as I had at first supposed. 
I told my employer what my apprehensions were, and what 
we might reasonably expect would be the result. 
6 p.m.—Much the same as in the morning. No action of 
the bowels. I ordered 01. Lini Oj to be given, and the 
gl3^sters to be repeated. 
9 th, 8 a.m.—Not so well. The pains return at shorter 
intervals, and are more violent. The pulse is slightly 
increased, but still regular. The bowels are not acting, but 
a little feculent matter follows the use of.the enemas. 
12 a.m.—The mare has had two or three very violent 
paroxysms of pain since the morning. She even tore up the 
pavement with her feet. Her bodjr was bedewed with profuse 
perspiration. At times, however, she would press firmly 
against the wall with her head, and appear very stupid ; so 
much so indeed, that it was with great difficulty she could 
be made to move. 
5 p.m.—Pains not so violent, and the intervals between 
the paroxysms of longer duration. Breathing tranquil; per¬ 
spiration subsided; pulse 48 in the minute, soft and regular. 
Head still pressing against the wall. She w'ould not move 
when spoken to. Nothing has passed the bowels. 
Gave Ol. Lini Oj, and repeated the enema. About 
ten o’clock p.m. violent exacerbations of suffering returned, 
which continued until 1 a.m., when she fell down and died 
almost immediately. 
10 th.—This morning I made a post-mortem examination, 
and found the thoracic and abdominal viscera quite healthy. 
Indeed, no traces of disease in either of the large cavities of the 
bod}" were met with. The bowels contained a large quantity 
of feculent matter, which was in a pultaceous state. The 
single colon had indeed been completely emptied by the re¬ 
peated use of enemas. 
I proceeded to open the head, but not being prepared with 
