136 DErARTMI<:NT OF AGRICULTUKE. 



tion of the lmi<»- tissue within. The structure floated on water, and was 

 certainly free from intianiniatory deposit. The luiijj;s weij^lied twelve 

 ])ounds. The heart, of normal size and consistence, was freely ecchy- 

 mosed over its entire outer surface. The ri;u;ht ventricle contained a 

 little frothy blood, but was not blood-stained. The left ventricle also 

 contained a little dark tluid blood, and was free from ecchymoses. On 

 opening- the left auricular appendix, it was found studded with puncti- 

 form i)etechiix,\ Alimentary canal, all anterior to the fourth stomach 

 Avas healthy, but this organ was of a dee]) red color over the mucous 

 folds of the cardiac end. The antrum pylori was studded over its 

 entire surface with irregular erosions, exceeding twenty in number. 

 Koue of these had the granular surface or peculiar edges of true ulcers, 

 but looked like abrasions, the epithelium having been removed and the 

 reddened mucous surface more or less discolored by adherent vegetable 

 matter, constituting the base of the solutions of continuity. The duode- 

 num was of a dark yellow color, and the areolar tissue around it was 

 oedematous. The whole internal surface of the small intestines was the 

 seat of ramified redness, with marked ecchymoses scattered in large 

 numbers through out. Some of blood-stained spots have sloughed in their 

 centers. The ileo-colic fold was blackened and tumefied, and the longi- 

 tudinal mucous folds in the colon and rectum were stained with 

 blackened blood extravasations. The liver and gall bladder, to all 

 appearances in a healthy state, weighed nineteen pounds. 



The spleen, of a dark color, with a deep red pulp which oozed out of 

 incisions made through the capsule, weighed five pounds and four ounces- 

 The kidneys weighed two pounds, but, with the exception of urine of a 

 port-wine color in the pelvis of each, appeared sound. The bladder was 

 distended with bloody urine, but its coats were of a healthy color. The 

 cranial contents appeared rather unusually vascular, but otherwise 

 healthy. The spinal cord was not examined. 



Observation VI, August G, 18G8. — Three year old cow ; the property 

 of G. F. Byers, of Sodorus. Died the night previous to the examination. 

 Ko cadaveric rigidity. Decomposition commenced. On removing the 

 skin it was found that effusion had taken place under the sternum. The 

 organs of respiration were found healthy. The heart was somewhat 

 soitened from incipient decay ; b.oth outer and inner surlace were the 

 seat of cadaveric blood-staining. The entire alinu^itary canal was found 

 normal, and free from congestion, ecchymoses, or erosions. The liver also 

 was sound. The spleen, much enlarged, probably four times its natural 

 size, was soitened at its base, and blood had tiowed freely out during 

 the life of the animal, as clots and licpiid Itlood droi)i)ed out of the ix'rito- 

 neum when it was fii-st oi)eiied. Tiie kidneys were normal, and the 

 bladder wondeifiilly distended by clear-colored urine. It is worthy of 

 note that this cow had been noticed to be sick for two days, but dis- 

 charged clear urine on the evening- of the 5th, and did not then appear 

 in a dyinj; state. She succumbed suddenly and unexpectedl}- during 



