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the owner’s wife hearing" the horse nicker as if wanting 
something, gave him a saucerful of sugar, which he licked 
up with avidity. 1 en minutes later, the coachman came to 
:he house and reported the horse dead. No one could have 
Deen more surprised than myself. So far as the pulmonary 
symptons were concerned the animal was progressing as fav¬ 
orably as could be expected. The first thought that crossed 
ny mind was, could he have been asphyxiated by the sugar 
orming with the saliva a coagulum in the throat, but there 
vere no signs of expectoration nor even a struggle, the horse 
was lying just as he had dropped. I then of course thought 
hat so sudden a demise must be due to heart-failure, but 
:onsidered it singular that I was not made suspicious of it by 
he character of the pulse. 
About three hours after death I made a post-mortem ex- 
imination, but as the facilities and surroundings were of the 
nost unfavorable nature I did not make as careful work as I 
would have liked and for which I afterwards felt extremely 
orry. 
As indicated by the ante-mortem symptons, the right 
ung was affected. The heart , however, exhibited the most 
nteresting pathological condition, and it is on this account 
hat I considered a brief record of the case would be of some 
nterest to the readers of the Review. 
On making longitudinal and transverse incisions into the 
avities on each side of the heart, I had presented to me the 
brino-fatty coagula (seen in the illustration) one on either 
ide passing from the auricle through the auriculo-ventricu- 
tr opening to the ventricle. One of the coagula seemed un- 
ttached, and which I simply lifted out of its position, the 
ther was very slightly adherent by its upper extremity, 
he illustration shows the specimens denuded of blood-clot 
no considerably shrunken from being in alcohol, and 
[Ithough I did not take the weight, the dimensions can be 
lirly estimated by the measure placed on one side. 
I regret very much for my own sake, and that of others, 
lat the meagreness of the only description which I am able 
) give of the whole pathological condition, is due to my not 
