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marks of inflammation and gangrene are always pre- 

 sent in eitiier tlie lungs, stomach, or bowels ; gene- 

 rally in all, but often not in equal degrees. To those 

 ^vlio are niGdicallv educated, it will be a matter of 

 ^ some curiosity to learn that the lungs should be united 

 so generally with the stomach and bowels in the 

 i:omnion affection. In those cases where there has 

 been much restlessness, quickness, violent panting, 

 and much mischievous tendency, with almost incessant 

 howling or barking, the infiannnation of the lungs 

 lias connnonly been found to be excessive, while the 

 stomach and bowels have been less so. Sonjetimes 

 one side of the cavity of the chest is found to be more 

 utYected than the other ; at others both are equally 

 so; but wherever the affection does exist, tlie infia.n- 

 jnation is commonly of the most violent kind, and 

 the lobes affected are found black and gangrenous. 



When the complaint has appeared milder in its 

 symptoms, at least when there has been but little 

 irritability ; when the loins have been affected with 

 paralysis ; when there has been much spasm, much 

 disposition to dig, and scrape the straw under the 

 belly, and much sickness of stomach, which is a 

 symptom that appears early in the complaint ; in 

 these cases it will be found that the stomach and 

 bowels are principally affected. In some instances 

 the stomach will be found very highly inflamed, and 

 the bowels less so, and vice versa ; but it is seldom 

 that the one is affected and the other wholly unaffect- 

 ed ; nor is it frequent that either the stomach or 

 bowels should be wholly free from marks of inflam- 

 mation, when the lungs are the principal seat of the 

 complaint: nevertheless, it should be lemembered 



