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induced by a prolonged recumbent position, he made violent efforts 
to rise, during which the dressings covering the diseased limb were 
displaced, and the wound, which had been cicatrising, was torn open 
afresh : a considerable quantity of blood flowed from it. When 
the persons who were going the round perceived the accident, the 
animal had broken out into a profuse perspiration ; his pulse was 
feeble ; the mucous membrane shewed signs of incipient discolour- 
ation. A compress dressing arrested the hemorrhage. From this 
date to the 27th, healing and cicatrization of the wound made 
tardy progress, the animal not appearing to recover much strength, 
although his appetite continued good and his diet substantial. 
On the 27th the near hind limb became similarly diseased. 
There was extreme tenderness, and some fulness of the fetlock. 
28 th and 29 th . — The animal in great pain again. Abscess has 
formed upon, and the skin sloughing off, the fetlock and pastern of 
the near fore-leg. The following days were marked by aggrava- 
tion of the symptoms. Gangrenous eschars are apparent upon 
those parts of the body that have suffered most pressure from long 
lying, and have compelled us to put the animal into slings. 
The same effects were soon found to be occasioned in other parts 
by the pressure from confinement in the slings, and obliged us to 
take our patient out again. At length, reduced by pain and irri- 
tation, and the suppurative ill-conditioned state of his wounds, he 
died on the 2d March. 
Autopsy, five hours after death : — General pallidness of the 
tissues, and emptiness of the vessels. Recent hepatization of the 
anterior lobe, and inferior border of the left lung, with commence- 
ment of the process of putrefaction in the liquids infiltrated into its 
substance. 
The intestinal mucous membrane was the seat of a vivid injec- 
tion which gave to it a blackish hue, especially about the ccecum 
and the larger curves of the colon. The mesenteric glands were 
tumefied, gorged with blood, and their surfaces presented white 
deposits of concrete albuminous matter. The skin of the off haunch 
peeled away from a large abscess. The external angle of the 
ileum was softened by caries. 
Fore-limb . — The skin about the tendons was considerably in- 
jected, and the cellular tissue lining it infiltrated with an abundance 
of lemon-coloured serositv. The surfaces of the tendons of the 
flexor muscles betrayed an inflammatory condition highly remark- 
able. They were closely united together and to the surrounding 
parts by a fatty cellular tissue crisping under the action of the 
knife. 
The sheath of the hind tendons was much inflamed, and its in- 
ternal surface covered with a pseudo-membranous exudation. 
