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much the disease had progressed, and what changes had taken 
place in those few weeks. 
On Sunday morning, Aug. 1, in company with Dr. Coates, 
we visited Brooklyn and found Prospero in a large box-stall, as 
comfortable as possible. He presented the following symptoms: 
He looks quite bright, and, though he has lost much flesh 
since our last visit, his coat looks good ; the pulse is rather weak, 
about 40, the temperature 102 3-5. The face presents, on the 
right side, the same appearance as it had at first, though the 
healing of one of the trephined holes makes it looks less repulsive. 
The swelling is larger and more diffused; it extends lower on the 
maxillary, and higher toward the lacrymal. Through the opening 
left there is a thin and ordorous discharge. The swelling is as soft 
as it was at first. There is a discharge through both nostrils, 
purulent, sanious, with odor of necrosis. The animal, when quiet, 
has labored breathing; he roars some, the roaring being increased 
as soon as he is excited. The septum nasi is diseased. The 
maxillary glands are much swollen and painful. 
On examination of the alveolar cavities of the four teeth 
which have been removed, they are found filled with granulations, 
and a fistulous tract is detected in the posterior part. The finger 
introduced in it returns loaded with the peculiar odor of necrosed 
bone. 
On visiting him the second following day with Mr. Very, of 
Boston, we found him in about the same condition, with the excep¬ 
tion that his temperature had risen to 103, and we understood he 
had lost some blood from the mouth. 
And this is the horse which is discharged, requiring nothing 
more but nature to cure him, which, as it was printed, would ful¬ 
fil his trotting engagements, and about which the press of Hew 
York, Philadelphia and Boston has written so many erroneous 
statements, thus lending the assistance of their powerful influence 
to quackery, ignorance and charlatanism. 
We have the promise of Mr. Parks to make the post mortem. 
Hew York, Aug. 3, 1880. 
