VARIOUS BREEDS OF SIIEEP IN GREAT BRITAIN. 701 
lesion in all cases of asphyxia. Lungs and heart perfectly 
healthy. Lungs both slightly gorged with very dark blood. 
On the forehead is a very large circular ecchymosis, about 
one third of an inch in diameter. 
The brain is intact and normal. 
At the neck was an unnatural prominence, corresponding 
to the articulation between the second and third cervical ver- 
tebrae ; the muscles in this region are ruptured, and there is 
considerable extravasation of blood. On carefully dissecting 
this part, the superior common vertebral ligament is found 
ruptured ; the ligamentous capsule between the oblique pro- 
cesses is torn, and such is the case also with the inter-annular 
ligament. In fact, all the connecting bonds round this arti- 
culation had given way with the exception of the inferior 
common cervical ligament, which was considerably relaxed, 
and the ligamentum nuchse, which was forcibly extended. 
The transverse processes were fractured ; some detached 
fragments of bone had remained adherent to the dentator by 
a portion of the ligament w'hich had remained intact. There 
was considerable displacement, and the articular surfaces of 
the oblique processes w r ere at a distance of one third of an 
inch from each other. The neck w r as twisted downwards a 
little to the right. 
Having discovered these serious lesions, Husson was no 
more astonished at the death of the animal. The vertebral 
canal was displaced; the spinal cord had been compressed; 
evidently there had occurred instantaneous paralysis, as well 
as asphyxia dependent on the injury being above the origin 
of the phrenic nerves. — Ann. de Med. Vet. Bruxelles , May, 
1855. 
16, Upper Woburn Place. 
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