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Inflamed vein came on for two or three inches on each side of the 
puncture, with slight swelling of the parotid gland. For six days 
she appeared to be going on well, and the inflammation in the vein 
was arrested ; it was, however, evident that the cavity of the vein 
was plugged up and impervious to the passage of blood. Unplea- 
sant symptoms of disease of the chest ensued, without any apparent 
extension of inflammation of the vein down the neck to the chest. 
In ten days she died from internal affection. On examination the 
vein, for about two inches above and two inches below the orifice, 
was completely obstructed, the coats of the vein being inflamed and 
thickened, and the caliber of the vessel filled with condensed coagu- 
lable lymph ; the disease of the vein appeared to extend but little, 
if any, beyond this obstructed part in either direction. Above , 
the vein was full of dark-coloured blood ; below it was quite 
empty, and exhibited no morbid appearance, and was pervious. 
The pericardium was inflamed, and there was effusion of a 
reddish serum within its cavity. Lungs inflamed, but not dis- 
organized, with a little effusion into the chest. The pleura was 
inflamed.” 
My first case . — This was a cow, which had been labouring under 
disease of the near jugular vein for seven weeks. The whole of 
the vein felt like a thick rope. Its united coats, where pus was 
contained in them, were fully a quarter of an inch thick, and its 
whole diameter one inch and a quarter. For four or five inches just 
below its bifurcation it was quite solid and obliterated. Its branches 
above closed with lymph. For four inches more below this solid 
part it would admit one’s finger, but was filled with pus. From 
the last-mentioned part, for five inches or more, a probe could with 
difficulty be introduced, and below that it would admit, the finger. 
Where the vessel entered the chest, each side of it was enlarged to 
about the size of a walnut ; one side had nearly ulcerated through 
the coats, and the other, it appeared, had done so, and was again 
uniting. There was also most serious disease in the vein for many 
inches inside the chest. Ulceration had taken place into the 
chest, and pus was making its way through the sides of the sternum 
and ribs, and the bones were bare, loose and exfoliating. The lungs 
were diseased. 
My second case . — This was a grey cart-horse. He had been bled 
twice. He was ill with inflamed vein for five weeks before he died. 
Had been out at grass. 
Examination . — All about the head, face, and neck, and internally 
about the larynx and tongue, there was immense effusion of lymph 
and serum. Each vein above the bifurcation, for four or five inches, 
was plugged up at a valve with, to all appearance, coagulable lymph. 
From the places where the animal had been bled, and all up to the 
bifurcation, the vein and surrounding parts were a mass of putridity, 
and only about one inch and a half of vein could be discovered which 
was still pervious, but very much thickened and contracted. The 
vein between the two punctures, and where a seton had been in- 
serted, had sloughed away. 
