ULCERATION AND SPHACELUS OF THE INTESTINES. 447 
except at the iliac artery, where it numbered 62. Rigors 
were also present, and from time to time she was attacked 
with most severe abdominal pain, accompanied with straining, 
more like that of parturition than anything else, and which 
was considerably increased after I passed my hand up the 
rectum, to examine that intestine. It was thus I felt the 
pulse at the iliac artery. 
I pronounced the case at once to be hopeless, and within 
two hours of my seeing her she died. 
Post-mortem examination. —The intestines were all more or 
less inflamed, while the ilium was in a state of sphacelus, 
being quite black on its inner, and green on its outer, side. 
The mortification extended some distance towards the large 
intestines. All the other organs were healthy. 
I send you part of the small intestines, attached to which 
you will observe a tumour or sac, which I doubt not will be 
found to communicate with the interior of the intestine, as 
there was a similar condition of the ilium, but very much larger. 
Some feculent matter, having a peculiar yellow appearance, 
occupied the interior of the tumour, and the parts surrounding 
it were completely mortified. It was here that the enteritis 
seemed to have originated. 
About six weeks ago I had a patient, a mare, 25 years old, 
which died, presenting similar symptoms, and in her case 
there were a great number of ulcerations in the small intes- 
tines, many of which had actually perforated the coats. In 
most of them a little opening only existed, but in two or three 
places the perforations were large enough to admit the end of 
the little finger. The contents of the intestines had escaped 
into the cavity of the abdomen, and produced fatal peritonitis. 
All of the ulcers were situated on the free margin of the 
intestines, and there was considerable induration of the gut 
around many of them. 
[The intestine sent by Mr. Evans, consisted of a portion of 
the jejunum, the coats of which were much thickened from 
recent inflammatory action, as well as from chronic disease. 
The enlargement to which he alludes was placed on the 
attached margin of the tube, and had externally the appear- 
ance and feel of a suppurating tumour. On slitting up the 
intestine, an ulcer, nearly as large as a five shilling piece, was 
found to have penetrated both the mucous and muscular 
coats of the bowel, and to have extended a short distance 
between the layers of the peritoneum constituting the mesen- 
tery. Within the cavity thus produced, some softened 
alimentary matter had insinuated itself, causing the peculiarity 
