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anxious look, which I cannot clearly describe. He stood with his 
front legs wide apart, and there was a constant tremor of the muscular 
portions of the thighs, but not of the body. 
There was an extremely apparent soreness of the sides of the chest, 
and unnatural irritability when the hand approached the body. Per¬ 
cussion revealed a dullness of the lower portion of the left side of the 
chest ; right side resonant. 
I had mustard paste rubbed into the sides of the chest, and gave in 
a ball, extract belladonna, dr. ii; opium, dr. i ; gentian, dr. iii ; and con¬ 
tinued the fluid extract belladonna and nitrate potass as before. 
My diagnosis was made to-day in accordance with the heading of 
this article. Prognosis, death. 
December 14th, 10, a. m. —He had lain down and got up again 
several times, appeared more irritable, and was suffering greater pain. 
During his sickness the evacuation of the body had not been of an 
unusual character, except that to-day the faeces were a little softened. 
His countenance had changed, but there was no drooping of the head. 
On the contrary, the owners considered he looked brighter. He was 
breathing heavily, the nostrils were collapsed except in expiration, 
when the false nostril became extended to its fullest capacity. The 
pulse was weaker and more indistinct, the front legs spread wider 
apart, ears erect, neck stretched, and an expression of fear and anxiety 
on his face. I knew that he had but a short time to live. He died at 
1 o’clock. 
Result of post-mortem, at which were also present Drs. Stickney, 
Wm. and J. S. Saunders, made at 3, p. m., the following day. 
In the abdominal cavity nothing unusual was observed except the 
effect of cadaveric change on some of the viscera and a slightly soft¬ 
ened condition of the liver. 
In the thoracic cavity there was an inconsiderable amount of effu¬ 
sion, perhaps not over a quart of serum. There was red hepatization 
of the left lung from its lower border to its middle, extending in some 
portions not entirely through those portions. The left one was almost 
free from evidences of a similar condition. 
The heart was not carefully taken away from attaching structures, 
sufficiently to ascertain the exact amount of effusion within the peri¬ 
cardium, which was, however, not great in quantity. The pericardium 
after being washed, showed evidences of previous inflammation, spots of 
ecchymosis being visible and shreds of lymph being attached to the 
serous membrane, particularly at the point corresponding to the apex 
