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ances found in dissection, was taken at second-hand by Mor- 

 timer, from one who had flayed and opened the two cows par- . 

 ticularly described in this paper (although the unprofessional 

 demonstrator stated that "these were the general appearances 

 in most he had flayed; only that in some he found water in 

 the cells of the horns ")» or stop to meditate upon Mortimer's 

 pathological summary; 



That this distemper began by an inflatnmation of the lungs, attended 

 with a catarrh or flux of humours from the nose ; that in the progress 

 of it there came on an inflammation of the guts, and a purging, caused 

 by an acrimony and overflowing of the gall, which ended in stools 

 tinged with blood — exciting great pain in the bowels — and brought 

 on death. 



The more careful reader of his second paper would have 

 reasonably inclined to place due emphasis upon Mortimer's 

 descriptions of those post mortems conducted under his own 

 experienced eye. He was present when three cows were 

 examined ; the lungs in all were inflamed and blistered, &c. 

 But not content with these dissections, he procured the ser- 

 vices of an ingenious apothecary to help him in ex- 

 amining everything very carefully. 



But let us give the Doctor's luminous account of what was 

 displayed, and as fully at length as it is given in the abridged 

 edition of the Transactions of the Society : 



" When the skin was taken off*, she appeared very fat ; the muscles 

 looked of a datker color than usual. On opening the abdomen, the 

 caul appeared very fat ; the paunch was greatly distended ; on 

 making a puncture much air gushed out ; it had in it a great deal of 

 food ; the inside looked well and did not peel ; the 2d and 3d stomach, 

 or the omasum, as also the 4th stomach, or abomasum, were almost 

 empty, but looked well; the liver was firm, well colored and sound, 

 except a few scirrhous knobs about the size of nutmegs ; the gall 

 bladder was exceedingly large, and full of very fluid gall ; the guts 

 were inflamed in many places ; the colon and cceciim livid; he had 

 the curiosity to have them measured ; from the anus to the insertion 

 of the caecum there were 12 yards (the caecum was an ell long), and 

 from the cajcum to the pylorus there were 52 yards. The midriff 

 was much swelled and inflamed ; the lungs were swelled, inflamed, 

 adhered in some places to the pleura, and almost wholly covered with 



