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CASE OF “LOIN FALLEN.” 
noticed him to reel and attempt to rear up, but the rack 
chain prevented him. The animal was released and brought 
to the door of the stable, when he immediately fell and died 
without a struggle. My attention was immediately directed 
to him, being then on the spot, doing duty for our late 
lamented editor, “ Peace to his manes.” On making a post- 
mortem examination soon after, I found the buccal, Schnei- 
derian, and conjunctival membranes of a lived hue, the peri- 
toneal membrane and intestines were similar in appearance ; 
in fact, venous congestion had taken place all over the body : 
the liver and kidneys w T ere much darker coloured than usual. 
Upon removing the sternum, the cause of the sudden death 
was immediately perceptible. The heart was three times its 
natural size, the weight of it was not ascertained, but it was 
supposed to be about twenty pounds. The pericardium con- 
tained nearly a gallon of colourless serum. The lungs were 
not in the least degree affected by chronic or any other 
disease. 
Upon removing the heart an extensive aneurism of the 
thoracic portion of the posterior aorta was discovered ; and 
the right side of the organ was found filled with grumous 
blood, distended almost to bursting; the parietes of the 
ventricle and auricle being no thicker in places than calico. 
The substance of the heart itself presented the same appear- 
ance as the other viscera. 
It may be as well to observe, that the animal was of an 
excitable temperament. 
CASE OF “LOIN FALLEN.” 
By W. A. Cartwright, M.R.C.V.S., Whitchurch, Salop. 
A cow eight years old, the property of A. Worthington, 
Esq. of the Mount, in this town, calved on Tuesday morning 
the 25th January, 1853. At night the placenta was expelled. 
She is in good condition, and has a very large udder, and 
calved without assistance early in the morning, before the 
family got up. On Wednesday morning she was thought 
not to be very well, being weak and tottering. 
About eleven a.m. I saw her. She is standing up, and 
there are slight muscular tremors. Pulse about its natural 
number, but feeble. Her udder is large, and she gave this 
morning about two quarts of milk more than the calf re- 
quired. She is weak and evidently totters in her hind parts. 
