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1 6th . — She was more off her feed and lamer, and was very 
feverish, but she urinated tolerably well. 1 now took about two 
quarts of blood from her, which relieved her of the fever, and 
she fed a little better ; but, soon afterwards she began to lose 
condition and get worse and worse, and her hock and stifle were 
likewise swollen, and evidently gave her, especially the former, 
much pain. Fomentations had little effect on her, and, at last, 
she was unable to get up. During the last week or nine days of 
her life I gave the balsam of copaiba, and her kidneys acted 
well, and scarcely any blood came from her, nor did she seem in 
any pain, except from the leg. 
On the 1st July she was killed. 
Examination . — She was in fair condition. When hung up 
and opened, a tumour, half as large again as a person’s head, pre- 
sented itself about the loins, and was firmly attached to the 
spine, and mostly to the off side. This tumour included the 
left kidney. It was about fourteen inches long, and must have 
been, when she was alive, almost in contact with the abdominal 
muscles. I had the tumour removed and sent home. The blad- 
der was sound, and contained a very small portion of blood at the 
orifice of the left ureter. The whole tumour had a good deal of 
adeps about it, on removing which, I found that the left kidney 
was merely attached to it by fatty matter and cellular tissue. 
Proceeding from the bladder, the ureter was, for an inch and a 
half, about the thickness of one’s thumb, and wrinkled here and 
there, after which the large tumour abruptly commenced. 
On laying open the ureter from the bladder, I found that it 
went directly into a large tumour, or mass of coagulated blood, 
of which I should think there were at least three quarts. The 
inner membrane of the ureter, proceeding from the bladder, 
was of a similar colour to the inside of the gall-bladder, and this 
colour could be traced for some distance on the inside of the 
tumour on the side of the blood. At the anterior, inferior, in- 
ternal portion of the tumour there was a kind of sac, made up of 
concentric layers of, to all appearance, organized lymph, and 
which could be peeled off from the surrounding callous covering 
of the tumour. I am not certain whether this may not have been 
a portion of the buff' formed from the effused blood. The cortical 
portion of the kidney contained a few small abscesses, but the 
other part and its pelvis were healthy. I neglected to examine 
the ureter from the kidney to the tumour, but the distance was 
very short, as the tumour lay not above an inch from the kidney. 
The hock and stifle joints contained a good deal of pus, and in 
some places the perichondrium was ulcerated through, giving the 
spots a red hue. 
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