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TUMOURS IN THE LATERAL 
. Odd to say, the near leg was the lame, or rather the worse 
now. 
Nine, p.m. Lying down, and tranquil. 
3d. Six, a.m . Still down, but in a strange state; great 
nervous excitement ; constantly snapping or biting, and some- 
times at imaginary objects in the air ; pupils very much 
dilated. 
Sumat Calomel., 3j ; Ext. Belladonnae, 3j. 
Blister forehead, and seton poll. 
Having a case of tetanus in the next box, I left him for a 
moment, when the farrier came in to report his death. 
Insp. cad. immediately. A considerable clot of blood in near 
side of cranium. The coverings of brain very vascular, with 
vessels tinged; a large quantity of fluid in ventricles; and 
also in each ventricle a tumour ; that in the right with a cir- 
cumference of about one inch, and in the left of about three 
quarters of an inch: both attached to the plexus choroides. 
The lamina had not a trace of inflammation . 
Under the microscope, they appear to be of a cholestea- 
tomatous nature ; and such any one will find in Todd’s 
Cyclopaedia, part 30, p. 98, under ‘ Tumours.’ 
Bangalore ; March 6, 1853. 
TUMOURS IN THE LATERAL VENTRICLES OF THE BRAIN. 
By E. Redwood, M.R.C.V.S., Dorchester. 
The subject from whose brain the accompanying morbid 
specimens were taken was a brown cart-mare, six years old, 
in excellent condition, which, prior to the manifestation of 
cerebral disease, (on the 4th March, 1833,) was always con- 
sidered an unequivocally sound animal, and capable of 
enduring the severest exertion. 
I was called to see her on the preceding date, and found 
her suffering from cerebral symptoms, i. e . , coma somnolenturn. 
The attack was sudden, while she was at work. 
The symptoms were great stupor, partial delirium, stagger- 
ing walk, either hanging the head in the manger or endea- 
vouring to bore against the wall or any obtruding agent. 
The history of the case convinced me at once it was not 
sympathetic disease, but idiopathic, as the animal had had 
no food for some hours. The pulse was full, but slow' ; 
respiration also slow, but no s'tertor w as evinced ; eyes 
amaurotic ; the excretions natural 
