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and with slight yellowish tinge; pulse frequent and weak. Nitre 
and sal ammoniac in four drachm doses given in drink. Frogs 
dressed with carbolized tar. Patient at first improved somewhat 
but the oedema did not subside. He then became much weaker. 
On the 26th he was very feverish and refused his feed; temper¬ 
ature 100-8°; pulse 65; visible mucous membrane yellowish. 
The symptoms became less marked on the following day and un¬ 
der the influence of extra exercise, laxative diet, and “ liver 
balls,” a relapse took place on the 28th. Temperature, 101-8° 
F.; pulse 48 r ; respiration 36, hurried and short; febrifuge medi¬ 
cine with tonics given. On the 30th the temperature rose to 
103-5°; pulse 54; he lay down a good deal this day and at 
times seemed restless. Breathing very quick. On the 31st the pa¬ 
tient seemed too weak to walk, but took food well; temperature 
102-5°F.; pulse 60; at 12:30 noon, he fell and was unable to 
rise; at 1 p. m. he vomited. At 2 p. m. he rose ; there was noticed 
much froth at his mouth, the urine trickled from him drop by 
drop; the abdomen seemed very full, especially the gastric re¬ 
gion. He lay down again and showed symptoms of not very 
acute abdominal pain. At 2:30 p. m. there was twitching of the 
voluntary muscles, he perspired profusely, head hung down, anx¬ 
ious appearance, action of the heart extremely violent, urine trick' 
ling drop by drop from the penis, which was somewhat protruded. 
A draught of water caused more labored breathing with slight 
expulsion of gas per anura. Opiates and other anti-spasmodics 
enemata, and mustard applications were freely resorted to 
throughout the case. Rupture of the stomach was diagnosed. 
Exploration per rectum failed to detect any abnormality and the 
bladder was not full, but a small amount of urine was expelled on 
pressure over the organ. At first the bowel was found dilated 
and a small amount of soft faeces was removed; later it was 
forcibly contracted and a little blood remained on the fingers on 
withdrawal. The animal lay down during this latter exploration and 
expelled a little gas after the passage of the dung. Pulse more 
distinct but very quick. Extremities svarm. At 6 p. m. extremi¬ 
ties cold, patient down, extremely restless, bathed in perspiration 
with most extraordinary dilatation of the superficial veins. Opi- 
