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his illness increased he was removed into a loose box, and fed 
on carrots, linseed gruel, and cut hay, hut no improvement 
followed. A few days before I saw him he became lame. 
Diagnosis . — Disease of heart and lungs, the result of 
strangles. 
Prognosis. — Death. 
Being an entire, three quarters bred colt, of good symmetry, 
the owner was anxious, notwithstanding my unfavorable 
opinion, to have him placed under medical treatment, alleging 
that “he could not surely die while he continued to eat.” 
Remonstrance was in vain. I must give something, prin- 
cipally, I suppose, as a solatium to his own conscience for 
having neglected him so long. I therefore prescribed a 
diffusible stimulant and tonic draught. 
He died in about thirty hours after my first seeing him. 
Sectio Cadaveris ten hours after death. Rigor mortis 
very feeble. 
On removing the integument a fistulous opening, about the 
size of half a crown, was observable between the jaws, from 
which a quantity of ichorous pus exuded. The pus had also 
insinuated itself between the muscles of the larynx and skin, 
extending down to the axilla, the glands of which were en- 
larged and suppurating. It was singular that the purulent 
matter seemed to have a tendency to extend in the line of 
the blood-vessels, and to attach itself to them, similar to 
crystals on a glass rod in a saturated solution of alum. 
The cellular tissue surrounding the sheath in the left groin 
and down the left leg was infiltrated with serum, while the 
right leg seemed blanched and white. This peculiarity 
attracted my attention, and led me to examine the condition 
of the blood-vessels. The glands in the groin were large, 
but not in a suppurative condition. The kidneys were en- 
larged, and on section they presented a whitish mottled 
appearance. Their pelvises were dilated, and contained a 
quantity of pus-like fluid. The liver was large, of an olive- 
green colour, and soft in texture. On section it was found 
to contain a number of yellowish-white masses, varying in 
size from a small pea to a walnut. In the substance of the 
right lobe a cavity about the size of a large cocoa-nut existed ; 
it was filled with blood and partially disintegrated hepatic 
substance. The peritoneum covering the diaphragm showed 
fungus-like projections or nodules of irregular form, flattened 
on their surfaces, of a yellowish-white colour. They had a 
cheesy consistence, and were streaked with vessels externally. 
The spleen was large, but not of unnatural consistence or 
colour. All the rest of the abdominal organs were healthy, 
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