Half an ounce of pus, similar to that used in the preceding instances,
but more putrid, in consequence of having been longer kept, was
introduced into the veins of a middling sized dog. The animal, as in
the other cases, was seized with vomiting, accompanied by violent
straining. Subsequently, strongly marked nervous symptoms made their
appearance. The eyes wandered; there was extreme sensibility, and
involuntary convulsive twitching over the whole body, accompanied by
faintness, hiccough, and short piteous cries. The walk was unsteady,
staggering, and without apparent object. There was furious delirium,
ardent thirst, dyspnoea, palpitation of the heart, etc. This
state lasted for nearly two hours, and the animal died in frightful
convulsions, without having experienced any critical evacuations, as in
the former cases.
_Post-mortem appearances._ On opening the body, while still warm, the
venous blood was found very firmly coagulated, not parting with any of
its serum when left at rest; the left ventricle of the heart showed, on
its external surface, some stains of the colour of lees of wine, formed
by a kind of concrete pellicle, which disappeared only after long
rubbing and maceration. The other organs appeared healthy.