ACUTE LAMINITIS, ENTERITIS, AND TNEUMONIA. 627 
21st, \ past 9 a.m. The increased abdominal pain greater, 
feverishness, and other signs of enteritis, are now the promi- 
nent symptoms. She does not attempt to rise. Pulse 95, 
and small. The bowels act occasionally ; faeces same as 
before. During the day she became rapidly worse, and died 
at 5 p.m., after being apparently unconscious, and kicking 
involuntarily at intervals with the hind legs for two hours 
previously. 
22d. She was dissected this morning at 1 1 o’clock. The 
head was not examined. 
Chest . — There was recent but slight pleurisy on the right 
side ; left costal pleura congested, but not perceptibly in- 
flamed. The right lung was extensively inflamed, and all its 
dependant parts were in the stage of ee red hepatization.” 
Left lung congested. Heart and pericardium healthy. 
Abdomen . — The stomach contained green food, hay, and 
bran ; it was structurally healthy, and not unnaturally dis- 
tended. Small intestine healthy. The caecum was slightly 
inflamed on its peritoneal and mucous surfaces ; its contents 
were of the usual consistency, about two pails full in quan- 
tity, and the more recent articles of diet were mixed with 
black oats and green wheat in the husk. The colon, and its 
second coil especially, was inflamed in patches upon the 
peritoneal surface ; the mucous lining was inflamed more 
extensively. The black oats and wheat were very plentiful 
in this gut, and increased in quantity towards the sigmoid 
flexure. The other abdominal organs presented no peculiar 
or abnormal appearances. There was as much pneumonia 
as we sometimes find in cases of that disease terminating 
fatally. The amount of enteritis was less than is usually 
found when it alone destroys life. 
Feet . — On dividing the outer circumference of the sole 
from its connection with the crust, the latter was found de- 
tached from the vascular laminae throughout the entire in- 
ferior margin of the toe, quarters, and commencing portion 
of the heels. The connection, however, was natural and 
perfect between the horny bars, sole, and sensitive parts 
within. The upper margin of the hoof was not detached from 
the coronary substance. Between the detached horn and 
vascular laminae, there lay a stratum of coagulated blood and 
lymph ; it was one fourth of an inch thick at the inferior ends 
of the toe-laminae, and gradually thinned away towards the 
heels and coronet. When this exuded material was removed 
the laminae underneath were found still slightly covered and 
firmly united laterally by a tenacious yellow substance. To 
the naked eye this had the appearance of strongly coagulated 
