476 GALL-STONES IN THE GALL-BLADDER OF A COW. 
ment accordingly. I gave calomel in an infusion of rad. vale- 
rians ; but as that produced no beneficial effect, I tried the tart, 
stibiat. in an infusion of rad. calami and rad. gentian, which 
did not succeed any better ; indeed, notwithstanding this, and the 
best of diet, and every attention being paid, the animal daily fell 
away and became worse. Finding this to be the case, I advised 
the owner to have her destroyed, and, as he immediately consented, 
I was enabled to make a post-mortem examination, of which the 
following was the result. 
On taking off the skin, the interior surface was found to be of a 
yellowish hue, doubtless arising from the absorption of the gall 
contained in the blood by the capillary vessels ; the cellular tissue 
and muscles of the skin were also yellow and flabby. On opening 
the belly, a similar hue pervaded the whole of the intestines. The 
serous skin of the liver was flabby and tinged with green ; the 
substance of the liver was rotten, and, instead of being of its natu- 
ral dark brown colour, was of a dark green. The gall-bladder was 
considerably enlarged, the gall thick, and exactly similar to extr. 
hyoscyam. both in colour and consistence. 
In three separate layers, one above the other, were found three 
gall-stones, and between each stone was a spongy substance of no 
great thickness. The whole surface of the gall-bladder was thick- 
ened. Its neck, as well as the duct connecting the gall-bladder 
with the liver, was contracted, and the chief biliary duct, where it 
opens into the intestinal canal, was almost obstructed. 
The contents of the intestines were not digested ; they were of 
a yellowish hue, thin and mucilaginous, and giving out a very 
bad smell. 
The remainder of the organs of the stomach, as well as those of 
the chest, were unaltered, if we except the presence of the all-per- 
vading yellow hue. 
Hence we may reasonably conclude that the liver of this cow 
had been during some time diseased, since it was utterly impos- 
sible that the three gall-stones could have been formed after the 
period when the animal received the injury that occasioned my 
being sent for, and which coming exactly on the diseased part ag- 
gravated it, caused the symptoms to become evident, and would 
doubtless have induced death. 
Magazin fur die Gesammte Thierheilkunde , 1844, p. 344. 
