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inflammation ; the womb contained sanious matter ; its mucous mem- 

 brane appeared in folds, reddened and thickened ; the right ovary was 

 converted into a soft spheroid tumour, seven pounds in weight, and 

 contained a blueish homogeneous, odourless fluid ; and its parietes, which 

 had become much attenuated, were reddened and injected. The left 

 ovary was double its natural volume, and contained several serous cysts. 



2. Another mare, four years old, fell suddenly ill. Diminished appe- 

 tite and gaiety were the only symptoms at first observed. These excited 

 no apprehension until the fourth day, when they assumed an alarming 

 character. The mare became gloomy and depressed, refused every kind 

 of food, and appeared suffering some abdominal pain ; her pulse was 70, 

 and rather full ; she walked stifily, and had some difficulty in dunging ; 

 and' her dung was shiny. Notwithstanding she was bled, for three days 

 there appeared no change. After this, all her symptoms became exaspe- 

 rated : the colics more frequent and intense ; the pulse quicker and less 

 perceptible ; partial sweats bedewed the flanks ; the belly seemed full of 

 pain, particularly about the left flank ; the loins were tense and inflexible. 

 On the 10th day she died. The stomach and small intestines proved 

 slightly inflamed. The left ovary was no longer in existence : a soft 

 round mass, six pounds in weight, occupied its place, which contained a 

 grayish, granulous, slightly odorous pus, and had fibrous parietes, thick- 

 ened and injected. The mucous lining of the womb was likewise reddened 

 and thickened. The right ovary, much larger than natural, consisted of 

 a great number of small serous cysts. 



3. A harness-mare, who had been at work for two years without ex- 

 periencing the slightest indisposition, was suddenly, and without any 

 manifest cause, seized with a disease which in a very short time proved 

 fatal. The only symptoms at first were a slight rigor and breaking out 

 into a sweat, with, some moments afterwards, slabbering and foaming at 

 the mouth. Subsequently, the pulse became all but imperceptible, sink- 

 ing under the fingers ; the membranes colourless ; extremities cold ; and 

 death ensued at the expiration of some minutes. A large quantity of blood 

 found effused into the abdomen. A considerable tumour occupied the 

 sub-lumbar region, continuous in substance with the right horn of the 

 uterus. This tumour, twenty-four pounds in weight, was of an oblong 

 shape, and exhibited at the anterior part a rupture occupied by a clot of 

 blood, from which had proceeded the hemorrhage, the cause of death. 

 Its tissue, white and homogeneous, was softened in the centre, where was 

 found a small quantity of encephaloid matter. Its parietics, generally 

 fibrous, varied in density, and in some places had the consistence of 

 cartilage. 



4. A mare, aged, had a chronic enlargement of the right hind leg, 

 which after some months disappeared spontaneously ; but the belly, which 



