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REPORTS OF CASES. 
tant where necroscopy was held, which revealed the follow¬ 
ing lesion: All organs healthy with the exception of the 
stomach, which presented a rupture about twelve inches in 
length on the convex face. The organ was apparently turned 
about half inside out, with what had been its contents loose in 
the abdominal cavity. 
But what particularly attracted my attention was the 
nature of the rupture in the outer coat, which was about one 
inch longer at either end than that in the inner coat, thus 
making the rupture in the outer coat between two and three 
inches longer than that in the inner coats. 
About two inches at one and one and a half inches at the 
other end of the rupture in the outer coat was a fresh tear, 
the remaining portion being an old rupture, in which the 
margins were indurated and inflamed, presenting a slight gan- 
grenosis. The inner coat was healthy and the margins of 
the rupture in it were fresh. 
In the evening of the 12th instant I was called to attend a 
case three miles in the country. On arriving there at 8 P. M. 
found the case presenting the following symptoms : Pulse im¬ 
perceptible at the jaw, temperature ioof F., standing with 
the feet spread so as to brace the body. The following 
history was given: Had been worked up to about 2 P. M. hauling 
corn—light loads—when he was put into the stable and al¬ 
lowed to stand a short time, then receiving a light feed of 
corn and oats. 
On the owner’s return to hitch up he found the horse paw¬ 
ing ; the harness being removed the horse immediately laid 
down and rested quietly for a few minutes, then rose to his 
feet. This was repeated several times during the afternoon. 
Shortly after he was first taken sick he began to perspire 
very freely about the head and gradually it extended back¬ 
ward and was so profuse that the water dropped from the 
body. 
About this time he vomited twice, quite a quantity of the 
ingesta escaping each time, after which the perspiration grad¬ 
ually ceased. 
Between 6 and 7 o’clock he was taken with severe rigor. 
Then I was sent for and found him as above described. 
