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INFLUENZA ATTACKING THE INTESTINES. 
and the manger literally scratched all over; the pulse was 
feeble and 105 in the minute; -the breathing accelerated; the 
Schneiderian and conjunctival membranes injected with blood 
of a purple colour. I at once told the owner I considered 
the case to be hopeless, but he requested me to relieve her, if 
possible. 
On making inquiry, I ascertained that her attendant had 
given to her an extra quantity of new beans and hay at 
6 p.m. the previous evening, in order to prepare her for a 
long journey the next morning. She could not see out of 
her eyes, the lids were so much swollen from her repeatedly 
battering her head against the walls when rolling about. 
Such medicines were given by me as I considered most 
likely to alleviate her sufferings; but, despite all endeavours, 
at 8 a.m. the abdomen became tympanitic, and at 10 o’clock 
she died. 
Post-mortem examination .—The stomach was distended with 
gas, and full of half-masticated ingesta; the mucous lining 
was intensely inflamed; the duodenum was inflamed through¬ 
out, and contained liquid blood ; the jejunum, ileum, colon, 
and caecum, were crammed with half-masticated and undi¬ 
gested corn and hay; the villous coat of all the last-men¬ 
tioned intestines was congested, the rectum only escaped. 
The other internal viscera were healthy. 
The cause of the disease was over-gorging. The man 
left her a little after 6 p.m., and the neighbours heard her 
making a noise four hours after, but gave no alarm. If they 
had, possibly relief might have been afforded- 
INFLUENZA ATTACKING THE VILLOUS 
MEMBRANE OF THE INTESTINES. 
By the Same. 
June 4th, 1863.—I was requested to attend a black mare 
belonging to W. B. Lowe, Esq., of Eatington. The symp¬ 
toms present were belly tucked up; respiration disturbed ; 
pulse 70; countenance dejected; appetite bad ; submaxillary 
glands enlarged. 
She had been ill for two days, and injudiciously bled to 
the amount of a gallon. Gave stimulants internally, and 
applied excitants externally. 
6th.—Extremities swollen and oedematous; pulse 100; 
breathing bad ; still no appetite. Treatment as before. 
