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ABSCESSES IN THE MESENTERY. 
symptoms of sub-acute enteritis, and is occasionally sitting on 
her haunches like a dog, and which was frequently observed be- 
fore while out at grass. The mouth was moist and tolerably 
natural. She had aloes 3 V a few days ago, and which operated. 
I took Ovj of blood from her, but it was very black and came 
away slowly, and I did not think it prudent to abstract more ; but 
I gave an anodyne draught. On introducing my hand up the 
rectum I found the faeces soft, and I could not detect any thing 
unusual. I ascertained from the servant that she voided her 
urine in small quantities, and that frequently there was something 
like blood emitted immediately after she had ceased to urinate ; 
but this was in small quantities. I could not detect any tenderness 
in her loins or peculiarity in her gait. I got her to void her 
water: she did not pass above a pint, and which was very turbid, 
but no blood mixed with it. 
Finding that she got no better, an hour after she had the first 
drink, I gave ext. belladon., spt. ammon. aromat., and a few drops 
of ol. men th. pip. in some water. In an hour or two after this she 
was better, and became dry and more tranquil, but was still uneasy. 
The groom seemed to think, and I was inclined to agree with 
him, that he might as well go home with her, for that she was 
very likely to be in a similar state on the next morning. I now, 
on his starting for home, gave her a strong opiate ball, and or- 
dered that, when she got home, if she was no better, lin. vesicat. 
should be rubbed on the abdomen, and anodynes be given, com- 
bined with aperients ; but I, at the same time, wrote that she 
most probably had some chronic disease of the urinary organs or 
of the intestines, from which, most probably, she would never 
recover; and I requested that, if she died, she might be particu- 
larly examined, as there was something rather peculiar the matter 
with her. 
25th . — This morning I received a message, desiring my at- 
tendance on the following morning to examine her, as the owner 
intended having her destroyed. 
2Qth . — This morning I accordingly went over, and found she 
died the night before, about 9 o’clock, with symptoms simi- 
lar to those she had all along been troubled with, only more 
violent. 
Post-mortem examination . — On laying open the abdomen, a 
small quantity of serum issued, and many of the small intestines 
were studded over with large spots of ecchymosis. The peritoneum 
also was considerably inflamed. The omentum was highly in- 
flamed. It was stretched out across the lower part of the abdo- 
men, and united pretty freely in the right flank to the peritoneum. 
Near to the stomach there was a tumour the size of one’s two 
