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were, however, nothing else than individuals of the slrongylus 
armaius minor” 
In some points the case above related differs from those that 
have been observed by Rayer. In the first place, he has never 
seen the worms between the coats of the artery. In one case, the 
embryonic forms were found embedded in the middle coat of the 
vessel and covered by its internal tunic; the greater proportion, how- 
ever, of the worms were found between the fibrinous layers, though 
they seemed to have been discharged into the cavity of the tumour 
from the cysts in the tunics in which they had been developed. 
In the second place, the parietes of the tumour were not generally 
hypertrophied; on the contrary, they were extremely thin towards 
those points whence arose the large arterial branches, and at the 
point of rupture the entire middle coat had been removed. It 
would be improper, however, to deduce any generalizations from 
an isolated case; and, as the subject is in itself extremely inte- 
resting, it is to be hoped that the attention of the veterinary 
pathologist will be directed to its further investigation. 
A CASE OF HEPATIRRHCEA, WITH OBSERVATIONS. 
By Thos. Wright, M.R.C.V.S., Brighton. 
On the evening of the 13th day of November last, I was called 
in great haste to attend a fine brown horse in the service of the 
Hon. J. Kennedy, sixteen years old, very fat, and about sixteen 
hands and a half high. The symptoms presented on my arrival 
were as follow : — respiration sometimes deep and heavy, while at 
others scarcely to be heard — nostrils distended — membranes almost 
white, except the conjunctival, which was very yellow — pulse almost 
imperceptible at the jaw, but the heart beating 60 in a minute, with 
nothing very peculiar to be observed in it — ears alternately hot and 
cold — extremities warm and comfortable — very restless — abdomen 
much distended, especially on the near side. From these symptoms 
it was pretty evident that there was internal hemorrhage, but its 
precise nature I could not exactly understand. I should have 
immediately pronounced it from the liver, if the enlargement had 
been on the off instead of on the near side. 
Having no confidence in any of the styptic agents we can 
administer in cases of this description, and no hopes whatever of 
my patient, I thought if we could procure quietude it would be the 
