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drank considerable ; by daylight appeared very bright and 
active, neighing for colt, pulse almost normal and tempera¬ 
ture a little elevated. 
Owners came six miles; prepared to bury her. Going 
home they could not keep her from trotting. For wound 
antiseptic dressing; soft feed, quietude, injections per rectum, 
etc. 
Aug. 12. Pulse 50 and strong; temperature ioo!° F.; ap¬ 
petite good; slight swelling along abdomen; bloody serum 
dropping from wound ; not a bit stiff; milk failing. 
Aug. 15. Condition about same ; great appetite ; has not 
laid down yet. 
Aug. 17. Condition suddenly changed; laid down sever¬ 
al times, and remained down for half an hour at a time. 
Pulse 70; indistinct at jaw; temperature normal; greatly 
tucked up ; respiration about 25 ; surface very cold ; small 
stream of bloody serum almost constantly flowing. Stitches 
very loose; extensive swelling along abdomen and sheath; 
dilated pupils; very stupid and stiff. 
Pressure on abdomen elicited no response; gave stimu¬ 
lant and passed small canula between lips of wound ; no flow; 
waited an hour. 
Diagnosis ; dying slowly ; led her out to die ; waited two 
hours; condition growing rapidly worse; very weak and 
trembling; remained standing. 
Exposed jugular and injected into it six or seven hypo¬ 
dermics of air, producing no effect; waited half an hour; 
dispatched her. 
Post mortem .—Stitches loose; wound almost entirely 
healed ; sub-peritoneal tissue greatly thickened, an inch at 
least at wound; peritoneum inflamed ; no effusion in cavity; 
great patches of inflammation upon all the intestines. Coecum 
thickened almost an inch through, and almost empty ; a yel¬ 
low ulcerated patch three inches in circumference, and a black 
elevation, size of fist, containing clotted blood, near apex ; 
mucous membrane of intestines seemed healthy. 
Upon inferior or external surface of spleen were about ten 
dark, solid, colored elevations about size of a quarter. Lived 
seven days. 
