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tissues, so far as the peritoneum, were strongly inflamed, and in 
a state near to gangrene. The fibres of the costo-abdominal were 
heaped together, hard, and resisting. 
The peritoneum was partially inflamed, and covered with false 
membranes. It was comparatively thickened, and had contracted 
various adhesions, forming the spleen into a veritable cyst. 
The spleen offered at its concave surface a rupture, irregularly 
elliptical, about an inch long, and five times in width. At its 
convex face was another rupture, being one-third less in size. 
A clot of blood, very adherent although softened, extended it- 
self from the deep fibres of the costo-abdominal muscle, where the 
wound seems to be arrested, to the profound rupture of the spleen. 
Over the passage of a wound that traversed the spleen, we found 
a vein of the size of a feather, in the interior of which was a soft 
clot. The internal membrane of the vessel was covered with a 
somewhat thick layer of pus, after it was raised by means of 
the back of a scalpel. 
In the tissue of the spleen there was a great quantity of miliary 
abscesses, resembling those which authors describe under the name 
of metastatic abscess. It exhaled an odour particularly foetid, 
especially during the life of the animal. 
With regard to the lungs, the right lung was gorged in some 
places with black blood ; in others, with a more yellow hue. Some 
had them round, others are oval, and others were irregularly deter- 
mined to the circumference, from the size of a lentil to that of a 
franc. The anatomical analysis demonstrates that these dissemi- 
nated spots are so many metastatique abscesses. The bronchi 
were dilated, and contained a quantity of mucosities, spumous and 
red. 
The metastatic abscesses were in great numbers. There is 
lobular pneumonia, with red hepatization in many points of the 
organ. Around these inflamed portions the pulmonary tissue is 
hardened. 
The heart is softened. The right cavities sometimes enclose an 
enormous quantity of blood not coagulated. The left cavities offer 
nothing remarkable but the presence of numerous ecchymoses. 
Injections in the arachnoid membrane generally produce their 
full effect. The vessels of the pi a mater were usually gorged 
with a large quantity of blood. The cerebrum and cerebellum 
have a consistence somewhat below the normal state. Every- 
where the blood is incoagulated, black, and distinguished by a 
peculiar suppuration of which it was the seat. 
