380 CLINICAL VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGERY. 



Pulse 82, respirations 75, temperature 100°, pupil still rather dilated, 

 surface temperature better distributed ; the bowels and kidneys had 

 acted, the former slightly, and the animal had eaten a little mash. 

 Trifling jaundice, which had been overlooked the evening before, was 

 noted. 



Slow but steady progress was maintained until 11.30 a.m. on June 

 29th {i.e. eleven days), on which date the pulse, temperature, and 

 respirations were nearly normal. At 3 p.m. the horse died. 



Post-mortem examination revealed profuse intra-abdominal haemor- 

 rhage, and pronounced yellow staining of all the internal organs. The 

 foam in the bronchi was tinged yellow, the bowels were similarly 

 tinted ; the kidneys, though otherwise normal, were of a like shade, 

 and everywhere the abdominal fat was deeply coloured. The principal 

 interest of the case centred in the liver, which was of enormous size, 

 weighing over 58 lbs. Owing to the large subcapsular clots being in 

 great part lost during removal of the liver from the abdominal cavity, 

 this is probably a low estimate. One of these clots removed from the 

 left lobe weighed 13 lbs. of itself, and several others existed. The liver 

 showed excessive fatty degeneration, was yellowish to dull brown in 

 colour, pultaceous, broke down under the slightest pressure, and per- 

 mitted of the capsule being readily stripped at all points. Normal 

 liver tissue seemed absolutely wanting. The capsule of the left lobe 

 was separated (by haemorrhage) over an area about nine inches square. 

 The contained clot was firmer than the others, and appeared to be 

 undergoing absorption. The right lobe showed somewhat less exten- 

 sive change than the left, but subcapsular breathing had occurred and 

 the capsule had ruptured, allowing of free haemorrhage into the abdo- 

 minal cavity. The space between capsule and liver substance contained 

 a clot weighing about 6i lbs. Sections through the liver showed 

 internal haemorrhages of all ages throughout the organ ; at some spots 

 a few dark brown patches were all that remained, at others the blood 

 was still nearly fluid. It was scarcely possible to find a cubic inch 

 without a haemorrhage. 



Viewed in light of the facts shown by post-mortem- examination, it 

 seems probable that the first attack, on the i8th June, was due to sub- 

 capsular haemorrhage in the left lobe, where the clot seemed to be 

 oldest; that under the combined influences of lowered blood-pressure 

 in the arteries, and increased local pressure at the seat of bleeding, the 

 loss gradually ceased with the effects noted, but that on the second 

 occasion haemorrhage was followed by rupture of the capsule, free 

 bleeding into the abdominal cavity, and rapid death from syncope. 



Mr. Jno. A. W. Dollar's case, I'eterinarian, 1896, p. 668. 



CHYLOUS ASCITES IN THE CAT— MENINGITIS AS AN 

 ACCOMPANIMENT, 



92. A large black male cat about eight years old, first seen on the 

 I2th April, 1895. 



History. — Five weeks previously the animal had been caught in a 

 shower of rain, and a week later its abdomen appeared swollen ; it was 



