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inspection a brief account of intestinal calculus in a dog. I 
know not whether the case may possess sufficient interest to 
gain admission into your Journal, but I can with confidence 
leave the decision to your better judgment. 
Sir, your’s most respectfully, &c. 
On the 2d of August, 1850, I was requested to attend at 
Burton Hall, near Lincoln, to make a post-mortem examination 
of a yard dog. It was remarked to me by Mr. Middleton, who 
kindly gave me the following short history of the case, that the 
dog was rather restless about two days before his death, and, 
about half an hour before he was found dead, he had been ob- 
served to lap an immense quantity of water. Such were the 
only symptoms noticed prior to death. 
On laying open the abdomen, I found that faecal extravasa- 
tion had taken place to a great extent. After allowing a large 
portion of fluid excrement to run out by the abdominal opening 
which I had made, I perceived evident traces of inflammatory 
action on every part of the peritoneum w'hich met my view. 
My next object was to search for the opening through which 
the egesta had passed. I found eight inches of the ileum dilated 
to three times its natural caliber, black and gangrenous, and its 
muscular coat extremely thin. At the most posterior part of 
this dilatation I found a large calculus, and immediately anterior 
to it a quantity of finely divided vegetable matter, firmly im- 
pacted together, which with the calculus formed a barrier past 
which no aliment could find its way. Rupture of the attenu- 
ated intestine w'as the very natural result. The opening in 
the ileum was at the most anterior part of the dilatation, and 
about two inches long. The above morbid appearances were 
quite satisfactory as to the cause of death. 1, nevertheless, 
examined the thoracic viscera, but found them normal. 
The calculus, when washed, readily separated into two. The 
larger one, having an irregular circular shape, was about one 
inch in diameter. The smaller one was of similar form, and 
about three quarters of an inch in diameter. They were both 
friable, being composed chiefly of phosphate and carbonate of 
lime. 
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By H. B. Greening, Veterinary Surgeon, Brixton Hill, Surrey. 
On the 3d Sept. 1851, at 8 o’clock A^M., 1 was requested by 
Mr. Joseph Preddey, of Crown Hill, Norwood, to attend a bay 
gelding. 
History . — The horse in question was six years old, well 
