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GEORGE DITEWIG. 
This and the opium mixture was the treatment for some 
time, the powder constantly, the mixture whenever the diar¬ 
rhoea required a check ; some improvement in appetite and 
general action, but not enough, so the oil and turpentine were 
again tried as before, because books said give oil and turpen¬ 
tine, but the oil was again discontinued for reasons already 
mentioned. 
The patients received good care, warm shelter, appetites 
tempted in every convenient way, so that a moderate amount 
of nourishment was taken, but to no purpose. The patients 
grew thinner and weaker, the diarrhoea persisted ift its re¬ 
turns. One at a time became too weak to regain the standing 
position without help, and when that point was reached death 
followed in a short time, so that by the New Year the second, 
third, fourth died ; the fifth, a yearling, died during the last 
week in January ; from the latter the post mortem description £ 
is taken. The sixth, a two-year-old, when last seen, seemed 
in a fair way to recover; this one throughout was least 
troubled with diarrhoea, has regained his appetite and taken 
on some flesh. 
Post Mortem.— Subject, a yearling gelding, the fifth of the 
herd to die. Time of examination, two hours after death. 
The common expression, “nothing but skin and bones,” ! 
would well have described the appearence of the cadaver. 
Visible mucous membranes pearly white ; opening incision 
along the median line, the abdominal tissues and muscles 
pale and anaemic. With the exception of the liver and the i 
right lung, which were slightly darkened by hypostatic con- ( 
gestion (the subject lay on the right side some time before 
death as well as after), the pale and anaemic appearance of 
the various abdominal and thoracic viscera was most striking. ' 
The deficiency of blood was so marked a condition that 
one marveled how the vital processes continued to operate 
as long as they did. The stomach, empty, pale ; liver, some- : 
what shrunken, firmer and harder to touch than normal, 
granular on section. The small intestines contained a small 
quantity of fluid alimentary material, also a few lumbricoids; 
the walls were pale and thin, presenting a transparent ap-‘ 
