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were found to consist of, masses of dark coagulated blood, 

 and seemed as if a little more distension would have ruptured 

 them also. There was a good deal of spotted dark bloody- 

 deposit in the neighbourhood of the spleen, on a portion of the 

 diaphragm, between its coats, on its thoracic side. The lungs 

 were inflated and blanched. The heart without blood and 

 quite flaccid ; and no blood in the vessels. The stomach was 

 full, but not at all distended. Mr. Cartwright adds, " I am 

 sure the rupture was recent, and that the spleen did not 

 exhibit any chronic or other disease. '^ 



Another case of ruptured spleen is to be found in ' The 

 Veterinarian " for 1853, in which it seemed to be connected 

 with colt-bearing. 



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On the 18th November, 1833, Mr. Well's chesnut horse — 

 slender, white-legged, flat-sided, delicate, and six years old, 

 had been much subject to cough that laid him up — was 

 again brought to me for being '^ off his food, and having a 

 cough." I ordered him some aperient febrifuge medicine, 

 and had his throat sweated. In ten days he was returned, 

 convalescent, into his own stable. There, he was not treated 

 as in his convalescent state he ought to have been, but was 

 put to be broke into harness, and altogether a good deal 

 abused ; to which I attributed his re- admission into my " sick 

 lisf on the 7th December following. On this occasion he was 

 bled and blistered, and otherwise treated as a chronic pulmonic. 

 He was bled a second time; but soon after such debility 

 manifested itself, that it was evident depletion could be carried 

 no further. His appetite now, however, became better, and 

 he lay down and took his rest well. Still he looked unhealthy 

 in his coat, and day by day lost flesh. His respiration has 

 never been visibly disturbed,, and his pulse is now but 50. 

 Indeed, his only unfavorable symptom is, emaciation. And 

 to such a height did this atrophy run, that towards the end 

 of the month it was perceptible all hope of recovery was 

 extinguished ; and the consequence of this report was, an 



