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REPORTS OF CASES. 
The head, neck, body and extremities were swollen, the 
penis protruding and swollen to more than three times its 
natural size, the tongue protruding and swollen, the buccal 
cavity congested. In making an incision through the skin a 
peculiar foetid odor came from it. The muscular tissues were 
congested, the cellular tissues were inflated with a yellowish 
gelatinous fluid, the lungs were infiltrated and engorged with 
blood; the muscular tissues of the heart were soft and flabby 
the cavities filled with blood clots of a dark tarry consistency 
and the aorta contained the same. The mucous membrane of 
the trachea and air passages were congested, and in places there 
were petechial spots. The external appearance of the stomach 
and intestines was of a dark reddish color, and there was I 
should judge, almost a gallon of a yellowish fluid in the ab¬ 
dominal cavity. The liver looked normal, but it would tear 
and break down very easily. The kidneys looked whitish ex¬ 
ternally, the bladder being contracted. The mucous membrane 
of the stomach was congested and the contents quite fluid. The 
intestines were congested and marked with petechial spots all 
toough them. Pyer’s patches were inflamed and thickened. 
The cavities of the kidneys were congested, as were the mucous 
membranes of the bladder and urethra. 
There was a peculiar odor about the cadaver, and the post¬ 
mortem appearances reminded me of a case I had a few years 
ago that was poisoned by the administration of cantharides. 
It is claimed by scientists that the poison of the bee is formic 
acid, but the symptoms in this horse were almost like one poi¬ 
soned with cantharides. 
Wishing to become more familiar with bee-stings, I procured 
an animal and a swarm of bees and let them become acquainted. 
On September 12th at 2 P. m. the symptoms were about the 
same in about the same ratio, up to the time of the commence¬ 
ment of the stertorous breathing, when I began to administer 
the officinal solution of potassa in one-ounce doses every half 
hour; also hypodermically, three-grain doses of sulphate of 
morphine. I gave the solution of potassa in linseed gruel, one 
and a half pints of whiskey. The first dose was given at 5.30 p. 
M. At 6, no marked change, when another dose was given. At 
6.30 the temperatuie, which had been 104-!°, c^^iPcdown to 104°, 
the pulse from 60 to 4.8, and the respiration from 40 to 28. At 
7 P. M. she got up without assistance. The stertorous breath- 
ing had somewhat subsided at this time. Gave another dose of 
the mixture, also another injection of morphine. The straining 
