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20th , — Both tumours have strangely grown, and one of them 
has ulcerated. The process of healing is completely stopped, and 
four or five other nuclei can be felt round the wound, at various 
distances from it. The dog is evidently in pain, and gets thin. 
The tumours have continued to increase. The first that ulcer- 
ated is now as large as a duck’s egg. The other has likewise 
ulcerated, and the virus corrodes the whole wound. I have, for 
nearly three weeks, been endeavouring to persuade the owner to 
have him destroyed. 
28th . — The poor animal was at length relieved from his misery. 
Not permitted to be examined. 
ATROPHY IN A GOAT. 
By the same . 
September 13 th, 1843. — Going into the yard of a dealer this 
morning, I observed, as 1 thought, that a favourite goat did not 
look so bright and so wicked as he generally did. On asking the 
reason of his altered appearance, I was told that he had been 
purging during the last two or three days ; and that, to-day, 
purging had much increased, and he was quite oflfhisfeed. I re- 
commended that cret. preparat. 3i, catechu 9i, ginger gr. x, and 
pulv. opii should be given morning and night. 
16^. — He feeds better, and does not purge so much. Continue 
medicine. 
20^. — His apparent improvement was delusive. He again 
refuses to eat, and he purges as much as ever. Give the powders 
three times every day. 
23 d . — Died last night. I obtained permission to examine him. 
The stomachs, and particularly the rumen, were distended with 
food. No appearance of inflammation in them or in any part of 
the intestines ; but there was, what we so often see in the sheep, 
a general collapse. The lungs were particularly collapsed on 
the left side, and partially on the right. It was the bloodless ap- 
pearance of the lungs of a calf that had been frequently bled, and 
slaughtered in the usual way. He was almost a perfect skeleton, 
and may be said to have died of actual atrophy. The purging 
seemed to be the effect of debility, rather than undue stimulus. 
I have long been convinced that this is no unfrequent case. 
Where there is evidently no febrile affection, tonic medicine should 
be more frequently applied than it generally is. 
