FRACTURE OF THE ILIUM. 
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DISEASE OF THE STOMACH AND INTESTINES 
IN A COW. 
By the Same. 
July 19 th, 1854, at 1 p.m . — By request, I saw a cow with 
apparently acute dysentery ; she was in full milk, and six 
years old. When the shepherd went to fetch the cows into the 
yard early in the morning, to milk them, the cow in question 
was lying down by herself in the pasture field ; she had been 
purging excessively. Symptoms : — voids large quantities of 
dark green coloured liquid faecal matter of a highly offensive 
character, and mixed with mucus ; lies down, looks back ; 
nose dry, ears and extremities cold; pulse weak and upwards 
of a hundred beats in a minute ; no tension of abdomen ; 
evidently sinking. Gave stimulants and opiates, and ordered 
mustard applications to the abdomen. Died in the night. 
20 th, Post-mortem Appearances . — Coats of the duodenum black 
and gangrenous ; the bowel contained black liquid matter; the 
other intestines inflamed in patches; the lining membranes 
of the rumen, reticulum, maniplus, and abomasum inflamed 
throughout, and easily separated from the outer ones ; the 
leaves of the maniplus also diseased. I found large quantities 
of broken pieces of burnt clay mixed with the food, from the size 
of a pin’s head to that of a pea; in some of the cells of the 
honeycomb there was an accumulation of minute particles of 
half masticated brick, mixed with black liquid matter, similar to 
that found in the duodenum ; the inflammation in the stomach 
was caused by this extraneous matter, and thence extended 
to the intestines. It has since been ascertained that the cow, 
with others, had been in the habit of chewing and swallowing 
broken draining pipes, which were lying under the hedge in the 
field where they were depastured. 
FRACTURE OF THE ILIUM; RUPTURE OF 
INTERNAL PARTS, &c. 
By the Same. 
Aug. 1, 1854. — Was requested to make a post-mortem 
examination of a two years old cart-mare, that fell down in 
the blacksmith’s forge, being there to be shod. The smith 
heard a noise when he was at his anvil, looked round, and saw 
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