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cavity, the first impression was that the contents were per- 
fectly healthy ; a more minute inspection exhibited slight 
traces of congestion of the peritonaeum, and the intestines 
throughout their course studded with small specks of a 
sphacelytic character. The inner surface of the intestines 
and contents were normal. The contents of the rumen were 
of a semifluid nature, and no indigesta or unnatural food, 
save the presence of a small quantity of dirt and stones, 
appeared mixed with it. The mucous coat of this stomach 
was entirely sphacelytic, and easily separable from the other 
coats of the rumen ; in fact, portions of it were mingled with 
the ingesta it contained. This appearance, but differing in 
degree and intensity, was presented by the reticulum and 
omasom. The 4th stomach, or abomasom, was healthy. 
Contents of the thorax : — lungs highly inflamed, pleura pul- 
monalis and eostalis acutely so. The heart was also impli- 
cated to as great an extent ; the left auricle and ventricle 
were empty, the right filled with black blood ; there was also 
about an ounce of water in the pericardial sac. The trachea 
and oesophagus were inflamed throughout their course ; I 
could not, however, detect anything abnormal about the 
pneumogastric or recurrent nerves. The larynx, pharynx, 
Eustachian tubes, velum palati, posterior part of the tongue, 
and buccal membrane of the cheeks were violently inflamed, 
the anterior part of the tongue and back of the mouth 
exempt. The Schneiderian membrane was of the colour of 
a piece of red cloth ; the frontal sinuses, the membrane 
lining them, slightly affected. Cerebral cavity : — dura mater 
much injected ; the structure of the brain itself somewhat 
congested, which congestion was extended throughout the 
course of the medulla oblongata and four or five inches of 
the spinal cord. There w T as no extravasation of blood or 
serum in the cerebral cavity or spinal canal. I may here 
remark that this animal was twelve months old, of the mas- 
culine gender, and in good condition ; the symptoms it had 
exhibited during life were very violent and excitable; the 
shepherd assured me it had butted or bunted at him re- 
peatedly. 
After finishing the 'post-mortem in this case, I immediately 
despatched the other, and the appearances displayed by the 
sectio cadaveris were analogous to the preceding, with the 
exception of greater inflammatory ravages in the abdominal 
cavity, and decreased evidence of the affection of the brain 
and spinal cord. This one was of the same age and sex as 
the last, and during the attack had not been at all violent or 
excitable in its action, but chiefly kept the recumbent posi- 
