286 TUBERCLES IN THE LUNGS OF A PONY. 
and slide under the fingers. The operation is much more 
readily performed according to Rey’s method of incising the 
skin and then detaching it from the tunica albuginea by the 
fingers, tearing or pulling them asunder. It is very readily, 
very rapidly, and very effectually done, so that the tedious 
dissection may be avoided. 
[To be continued .) 
16, Upper Woburn Place. 
Facts and Observations. 
TUBERCLES IN THE LUNGS OE A PONY. 
At a recent meeting of the Pathological Society, Dr. Quain 
presented for Dr. Babington a specimen of tubercles in the 
lungs of a pony. The animal had had a cough for at least 
nine months. The cough got better while the animal 
was doing light work in the south of England, but on, 
returning to town some three months ago, the cough got 
worse. The animal became lame, first in one hind leg, then 
in the other, and finally the jaws became rigid. These 
symptoms were attributed, by Dr. Babington, to rheumatism. 
About a week ago, the animal’s breathing became very diffi- 
cult and hurried, and death took place three days since. The 
only organs found affected after death were the lungs. They 
were much congested, almost hepatized in some parts, and 
they were studded throughout with yellowish masses, in size 
from a grain of shot to a pea. They resembled, but were 
larger than, miliary tubercles in the human subject. Many 
contained nodules about the size of pins’ heads, of a bony 
hardness. Before the blow-pipe these swelled, and then 
dwindled away to a small portion, which, being heated, 
passed into pure lime. There were no cavities. Dr. Quain 
had examined the deposit with the microscope, and found it 
to consist of abortive cells, earthy, fatty, and granular par- 
ticles, with the elements of the pulmonary texture — a 
specimen very clearly showing the seat of the deposit in the 
pulmonary cells . — Medical Times and Gazette, March 22, 1856'. 
