FRACTURES OF THE VERTEBRA. 
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On post-mortem examination, I discovered the left lung to be 
much congested, black, and enlarged. On the anterior lobe being 
cut into, it presented large quantities of white purulent matter of 
a cheesy-looking nature, which certainly resulted from the forma- 
tion of a tuberculous deposit. The right lung was but slightly 
inflamed ; no congestion of blood, nor particular enlargement about 
it. The pleura of the left side was much inflamed and discoloured : 
the right side was but slightly so. The heart was very soft, and 
full of coagulated blood : the liver also participated in the disease. 
It was dark-coloured, and congested with blood. The biliary ducts 
were full of bile of a very high colour, something between a yellow 
and a green. The pancreas was much enlarged, far beyond the 
ordinary size : it was, indeed, the largest one I ever remember to 
have seen ; and was, no doubt, the result of chronic disease, which 
must have been in existence for some time. I have no doubt the 
cough which I found him labouring under on the first day was 
more in consequence of this chronic derangement than any cold 
caught upon the deck of the steam-boat, as I then supposed. The 
bowels were free from inflammation or discolouration of the slightest 
degree. On the shoulders being removed, and cutting down upon 
the spinous processes of the dorsal vertebrae, I found six of those 
forming the withers fractured obliquely, at about two and a half 
inches from the top, on the right side, whence they were driven to 
the left side, where the fractured parts declined to about half the 
length of the processes, then sunk down among the muscles on the 
left side of the shoulder, carrying along with them the cervical 
ligament, to which they remained firmly attached. The inflam- 
mation and discolouration surrounding the seat of the fractured 
bones were very great ; and, if I am right in believing that chronic 
disorganization had been going on previous to the fall, at least in 
the biliary organs if not in the left lung, the fresh cold caught on 
board the steam-boat might have assisted in hastening the death of 
Capt. Jones’s gray horse. 
I am, Sir, your most obedient, &c. 
Montreal, December 30, 1846. 
CASE OF EMBRYOTOMY IN A COW. 
By Mr. NELSON, Highfield , Sheffield. 
June 5th, 1847. — I WAS requested by Mr. Slack, of Sheffield, 
agent for the Agricultural Cattle Insurance Company’s Office, to 
go down to Robert Wilkinson’s, Cock-lane, Harborough, he having 
