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signs of former inflammation : its peritoneal covering had 

 become altered in texture, and was here and there studded 

 with coagulable lymph. The examination was made by my 

 father.^ I wrote him a long list of observations on the 

 case ; but I shall not send you any until I have heard 

 what you have to say : so remit me your thoughts on the 

 subject. ^^ 



In the same volume will be found three other cases, all 

 furnished by that ever observant and communicative prac- 

 titioner, Mr. Cartwright : before I notice these, however, I 

 must give the particulars of one that occurred to Mr. Hayes, 

 V.S., Rochdale, which — though curious altogether — pos- 

 sesses some characters corroboratory of the suggestions 

 prompted by Mr. King^s case. 



A horse experienced an attack, while at grass, partaking of 

 the nature of jaundice, which was subdued by bloodletting, 

 and aperient and sedative medicine. Being recovered, he 

 was ridden for a week, and then turned to grass again : it 

 occurring in the month of A.ugust. Nine days afterwards, 

 the animaPs services being again required, he was taken up, 

 and found broken-winded. Notwithstanding this, he was 

 ridden for three weeks more, and then again was taken ill 

 with "marked anomalous symptoms of pleuritis and en- 

 teritis." In five days he was again quite recovered, and 

 was once more ridden. His owner, however, by the advice 

 of a blacksmith, now gave him an ounce of saltpetre, night 

 and morning, to cure his broken-wind. This produced 

 acute inflammation of the neck of the bladder, of which he 

 died. On examining him, the lungs appeared sound. A 

 portion of csecum had protruded through a rupture in the 

 diaphragm; forming a pouch within the chest, which had 

 also become ruptured, and suffered its contents to escape 

 within the thoracic cavity. The rupture in the diaphragm 

 was near its inferior part, about five inches above the middle 

 of the sternum ; and was two and a half inches in extent, 

 with its edges sloughed off — quite smooth and circular. 

 The liver was gangrenous. All the guts highly inflamed. 

 1 Who is also a surgeon. 



