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MULTIPLE TUMOURS. 
length my case, which I could never thoroughly make out, 
was satisfactorily accounted for. The wound was now dressed 
daily with a disinfecting fluid, and each time filled with 
pledgets of fine tow. For a few days subsequent to the opera- 
tion, a small amount of relief was seemingly obtained ; but 
very early it became apparent that there was no chance of 
ultimate recovery, and the animal was consequently destroyed 
on the 10th of February ; about twelve weeks from the time 
of my first seeing him. The post-mortem examination very 
satisfactorily accounted for the phenomena which attended 
the progress of the case. Three of the ribs, the eighth, ninth, 
and tenth, but the ninth in particular, were found to be ex- 
tensively diseased. They were increased in size and altered 
in contour, from a loosely compacted osseous deposition on 
their surface. This readily gave way before the knife, and was 
everywhere in its substance thoroughly saturated with blood. 
A section carried through the ribs showed that their osseous 
structure was also changed throughout It was spongy 
and porous to a remarkable extent, having the cancelli like- 
wise filled with blood. Little or no normal bone-structure 
was found in the ninth rib, and only here and there in the 
others. 
The cavity which I have described as containing a large 
clot of blood was found to have its walls chiefly composed of 
coagulated fibrine. It was evident that the blood had oozed, 
as it were, into it from the dilated vessels of the affected 
ribs, and being now exposed to the free action of the air, 
went gradually into a state of decomposition, giving rise to 
the fetor which was found to be so prominent a feature in 
the case. The disease probably had a local origin, although 
it could not be connected with any injury immediately pre- 
ceding the tumefaction on the side. The lameness evidently 
was symptomatic, being caused by the pain attendant upon 
the movement of the muscles in the vicinity of the affected 
parts. 
CASE OF MULTIPLE TUMOURS. 
By E. J. King, M.R.C.Y.S., Diss. 
The morbid parts I send for your inspection, consisting 
of the liver, diaphragm, bladder, &c., of a horse, were 
removed yesterday from a patient which had been seen by 
me for the first time three days since. The history of the 
case is briefly this : 
