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the pulse increased about thirty, and the breath had rapidly 
become offensive, showing how rapidly the disease was ad¬ 
vancing. The patient also laid down several times during 
the night, staying down only a few minutes at a time. 
Wednesday morning patient was still worse. Temperature 
io 5j° F., respiration 72, and labored, and the pulse I could 
not feel at all; animal was very weak ; nostrils dilated ; 
hsemoptisis, groaned every few minutes, gnashing his teeth at 
the same time; profuse perspiration; getting up and lying 
down, and when standing did so with the posterior extremity 
braced up in the corner of his stall, continually looking around 
at his flank, altogether shozving symptoms of severe pain. Horse 
laid down about 10:30 A.M., and was unable to get up ; he 
then died in a few minutes. 
On post-mortem examination, commencing with the res¬ 
piratory track on account of the disease, we began with the 
larynx, which was perfectly normal; the mucus memb/rane of 
the trachea in the upper portion was congested, and in the 
lower third gangrenous. On opening the thorax there was a 
large escape of dirty serum with a very bad odor. The pleura 
was thickened, soft and ragged. The anterior portion of the 
right lung was gangrenous ; the superior portion of the pos¬ 
terior part was in the stage of red hepitization, and the balance 
congested. The left lung was nearly all broken down. On 
separating the lungs there appeared an elongated body, 
which at first sight was taken for a piece of intestine. The 
heart was asnemic and slightly soft, the fat around it very 
yellow and echymotic. 
Beginning again I took up the alimentary canal. Found 
the pharynx normal, also the oesophagus down to within a 
certain distance from the diaphragm, when it suddenly be¬ 
came very large. It was this enlargement we had mistaken 
for the intestines, but on closer examination it proved to be a 
large jabot, the muscular coat of which was very thick on its 
superior face (the original oesophagus), while the inferior part 
was very thin. It made a pouch equal to a small stomach, 
being fourteen inches long and thirteen and one-hall inches in 
circumference ; it was completely filled with water and ground 
