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CASE OF A COW. 
abdominal surface of the diaphragm. The omentum was com- 
pletely covered with them, these about the size of small shot 
corns. Liver, not half the usual size, with scarcely a sound 
spot in it, being filled on all sides, and through the structure, 
with tubercular abscesses, most of which looked ready for 
bursting ; gall bladder empty ; kidneys pale, and half of one 
quite hard, more like cartilage than anything belonging to a 
kidney; bladder healthy; uterus, from the os uteri to its 
termination at the ovaries (no vestige of an ovary to be 
found), a solid mass of cheesy matter, the coats thinned, and 
closely adherent ; mesenteric glands enlarged to the size of an 
egg, some larger ; mesentery clear from the granular deposits ; 
stomachs studded over externally, similar to the diaphragm ; 
thorax, the pleuro-pulmonalis and costalis, adherent by means 
of numbers of the same abnormal growths ; on the thin lower 
edges of the lungs a solid mass of them, some inches in thick- 
ness, firmly attaching the lungs to the sternum ; superiorly, 
between the lobes, in a line with and over the oesophagus, a 
long large abscess, and other smaller ones, which made the 
lungs look to consist of three lobes, — such was its size ; the 
parenchymatous structure of the lungs pale, but free from 
tubercles ; doubtless the abscesses were quite sufficient to 
account for the weak continual coughing ; the pericardium 
adhered to the surrounding lungs, and most firmly so to the 
heart, so that it could not be separated even with the knife, 
and by the apex to the sternum ; superiorly, a fleshy hard 
tumour, perhaps large enough to weigh lib., pressed upon the 
auricles, which were small ; cavities of the ventricles also 
very small, and on laying them open the knife stuck fast into 
a piece of bone ; the heart was completely nailed down to the 
sternum, first by the pericardium, then a mass of fleshy 
excrescences, and the lungs. The wonder is, not that the 
poor animal could not recover, but how, in her emaciated 
state, and after nearly bleeding to death, she could survive 
the operation at all, live near a fortnight, and look like living 
some time longer. 
I am, dear sir, 
Yours, &c. 
