REPORTS OF CASES. 
575 
After two o’clock a.m., he stood with head pushed into a 
corner, breathing very deep and rapidly, sweating profusely, 
never leaving corner or growing any easier until only ten 
minutes before he died, ten o’clock A. M. He then staggered 
back, sat on his haunches a few minutes and died. 
His sufferings and struggles at pushing his head against 
the wall were terrible to see. I attempted several times to 
chloroform him with sponge on stick, using chloroform and 
sulphuric ether, but with only slight effect toward relief. 
The absence of several symptoms of this case are re¬ 
markable. The loss of feeling and symptoms of gangrene 
were never present. That peculiar motion of the head indic¬ 
ative of recent inguinal hernia, and the later extreme prostra¬ 
tion were also absent. 
I suspected hernia, but rather thought it to be something 
else, and on opening him expected to find considerable change 
of some kind, but did not know what exactly to expect. I 
found, to my surprise, everything apparently normal, save 
near the stomach, about six inches of small intestine, black as 
coal, slightly smaller than the rest and containing one-half of 
faeces. I will add, right here, that 1 was at sea and did not 
suspect it to be a previously hernial intestine displaced by 
handling carcass after death. This, of course, is what it was. 
Case II.—Subject, large draft stallion, eight years old. 
;The owner, who is a good horseman and blacksmith, at noon 
turned the stallion in paddock for exercise. At supper-time 
he found him apparently all right, except slightly lame in one 
hind leg. He examined foot and fed him his usual feed, of 
which he ate some, but mincingly. 
About dark, owner heard noise among his stallions (he 
kept three), and in looking in he found this one sitting on his 
haunches, looking around at himself. He sent for a Quaker, 
who does considerable doctoring, and about midnight I was 
sent for. 
I found him down, easy, but near death. Pulse one hun¬ 
dred and fifteen over heart, cold, unable to rise, temperature 
ninety-eight degrees ; refused to operate; died in eight hours 
from time severe pain set in. 
