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walked stiff, and grunted when turned round; the tunica 
conjunctiva was tinged yellow ; she lies down occasionally, 
is in pain, and looks back to her flanks. I at once gave the 
case up as being incurable, and death put an end to her 
sufferings on the 22d. 
Post-mortem appearances . — Lungs very light and pale ; 
emphysema of the small lobes ; air had escaped out of the 
small cells between the covering membrane of the lungs; 
effusion of serum into the abdomen ; lymph adherent to the 
intestines in several places; left kidney enlarged and in- 
flamed; spleen considerably enlarged, much diseased and 
indurated, and when cut into, it had a mottled appearance ; 
there existed large patches of cheese-like matter embedded in 
the substance of the spleen, w 7 hich organ was also inflamed in 
places, and weighed 24 lb. avoirdupois. The liver had not a 
healthy or sound part in it ; it was also very much enlarged, 
thickened, indurated, reddened, and full of abscesses con- 
taining viscid matter, varying from the size of a pea to a 
walnut ; and it weighed 85 lb. It is surprising how the animal 
could have existed so long with such an amount of dis- 
organization of these parts. 
Case V. Poisoning by Wheat.— Nov. 20, at 8 p.m., I 
was called to Broad Maistor to see two cart-horses that had 
eaten a quantity of wheat the night before. They had been 
worked as usual the greater part of the day. One of them, a 
grey horse, when I saw him had no perceptible pulse, the 
belly was tympanitic ; he laid down, rolled, then got up and 
tried to vomit, when he reared up, fell, and died in a few 
minutes after I saw r him. 
The other horse, a brown gelding, was standing immove- 
able and perspiring profusely ; his breathing w 7 as very quick 
and oppressive ; the visible mucous membranes were con- 
gested; the pulse weak, and 120 in a minute, and he, too, 
soon died. 
Post-mortem examination made the next day on the grey 
horse. — Stomach crammed full of w 7 heat, not in the least 
digested, and the intestines contained much of the same grain, 
particularly the duodenum. The mucous coat of the bowels was 
highly inflamed, and the villous coat of the stomach was in 
an extreme state of congestion, it presenting all the appearance 
of acute poisoning. The bowels were distended with gas ; 
the muscular coat of the colon w 7 as ruptured in two places, 
and the left obliquus internus abdominis muscle was rent to 
the extent of six inches, from the great pressure of the 
bow r els. 
