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intestines. The villous surface is frequently gangrenous, and the 

 outer or peritoneal portion, from the coagulable lymph thrown 

 out, is often found adhering to other portions. Sometimes intus- 

 susception exists, but constrictions and twistings are still more 

 frequently present. Occasionally, the tube is altogether empty, 

 but it is more frequently found partially distended with hardened 

 faeces, and not unfrequently with worms. The degree of inflam- 

 mation between the stomach and intestines is not always corre- 

 spondent ; on the contrary, when the one has been very highly in- 

 flamed, it has not been unusual to find the other less so, but 

 variations in the state of the stomach are less frequent than those 

 in the bowels. I have usually found, when the appearances of this 

 symptomatic enteritis have been intense, that such cases, during 

 life, had exhibited torpor, distress of countenance, affection of the 

 parts of deglutition, great scratching of straw to the belly, para- 

 lysis, and all those characteristics more immediately appertaining 

 to what is called, by sportsmen, dumb madness. On the contrary, 

 when the intestines have been but little inflamed, and the stomach 

 likewise not intensely affected either, but the lungs extremely so ; 

 such cases, during life, have been characterised by great irritabi- 

 lity, a desire to rove, and those appearances common to raging 

 madness. Mr. Youatt seems not to have met with many cases of 

 very intense intestinal affection : but when I was familiar with it 

 some years ago, the bowels sometimes exhibited the principal share 

 of inflammatory violence. Several notices of this kind, made on 

 the intestinal morbid marks, are now before me. One dated 1812, 

 states, that a dog, the property of the Duke of Sussex, which I 

 was requested to see, gave unequivocal signs of rabies, of which 

 he died. When opened, the stomach was but little inflamed, but 

 the intestinal tube throughout, particularly the stomachic half, was 

 gangrenous, and exhibited intussusception in various parts. Great 

 marks of intestinal inflammation are noticed by Dr. Oilman, and 

 by many of the French writers who have given the post-mortem 

 examination. The remaining abdominal viscera are often found 

 to participate in the affection. The mesentery is sometimes seen 



