A CASE OF RED- WATER. 
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lie did on the following evening. She had fallen away amazingly 
in condition. She was scarcely capable of walking two hundred 
yards to the place of her death. This morning I examined her, 
when the following appearances presented themselves : — 
The liver softened (rotten, as commonly termed), of a marbled 
appearance, and easily torn with the finger; the posterior vena cava 
and other veins ramifying through the gland full of albuminous 
matter, shewing acute inflammation had existed there very recently. 
The mesenteric glands very much enlarged, and hard. 
The lungs shewed marks of inflammation in patches. The 
heart appeared as though the cavities were much enlarged, the 
walls thinner than usual, and full of coagulated blood. The stomach 
and intestines presented the usual appearances after death. 
Previous history of this mare . — The owner informed me this 
morning, that, about six months ago, she was attacked with some 
disease the nature of which was unknown to him, when the 
symptoms present were a continual stamping of all four feet, with 
loss of appetite for two days. These symptoms disappeared, after 
which the mare became very fat, and remained so for two months, 
until May last, when she began to fall off in condition until three 
weeks ago, appeared ill, and continued to get worse unto the day 
of her death. 
A CASE OF RED-WATER. 
By Mr. T. GREGORY, Storrington. 
SHOULD you think the following worth a place in your Journal, 
it is at your service. 
Red- water has again made its appearance in the brooks in this 
neighbourhood ; this being the time we generally look for it, and 
rather later than it happens in other parts of this county. The 
generality of cases occur among the Devon steers brought 
up for fattening at grass during the summer months. The brooks 
beforementioned are all, with the exception of one, flooded during 
the greater part of the winter, and it is in the one brook which 
lies high and escapes the water that the worst cases of red- water 
occur. There are various opinions as to the cause of it, most 
attributing it to the quality of the herbage, which is somewhat 
coarser than the adjoining brook-land. In the year 1837 or 1838, 
in the debate before the Association on Red- Water, I rnentioned 
a grass as growing luxuriantly in a field where red-water was of 
no uncommon occurrence, until by draining, &c., it was removed. 
