REPORTS OF CASES. 
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Symptoms :—Ears cold ; breathing very quick ; pulse 
120, and weak; eructations of gas from the mouth; not 
much blote. T judged I had a bad case of stoppage, from some 
cause. 
Treatment :—I at once gave a cathartic ball, six dram 
strength. The beast, as soon as led into the straw, went down. 
I then administered two grains of sulph. morphine hypodermically, 
and rubbed the belly with tin. tereb., which acted well ; then gave 
a warm water enema, which stayed in the rectum the usual 
time ; when it came away, it was about as clear as wdien pumped 
in. A little gas escaped, but no fecal matter. At 6 o’clock, I 
gave two drams of chlo. potas., and first noticed the absence of 
any pulse. I stayed by the poor beast till 7 o’clock, and gave another 
enema, which stayed in the body eight or ten minutes and 
came away clear. The pulse would rally for a short time, but so 
small and weak I could make no hand at counting it. At last it 
ceased altogether. 
The animal, at no time after my arrival, did any pawing, but 
would lie down spread out. Sometimes he would lie naturally 
on his belly, and would suddenly spring to his feet and show the 
whites of his eyes, as if scared. The membranes of the eyelids 
and nose, all this time, did not vary from the pale color they bore 
when I first saw the patient. At 7 o’clock I went home, and got 
back to the patient soon after 8 o’clock, and found that 
he had died in less than twenty minutes after my leaving the 
barn. 
The foreman wishing me to open the body, I found the sub¬ 
ject lying on the right side, the nostrils and eyelids still pale. T 
commenced by taking off the near fore-limb, scapula and all, and 
was surprised to have so small a flow of blood. I next cut the 
skin from the shoulder, in line with the spine, and about four 
inches from it. So with the flank; down the Hank to near the 
centre of the belly; then along the centre of the belly to the 
brisket. [ divided the ribs, and lifted the whole side of the car- 
cas so as to bring the whole viscera in view. Scarcely any blood 
flowed from this cutting. When I penetrated the abdomen, a 
