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TUMOUR IN THE STOMACH. 
A large abscess very soon formed, and I was sent for to open 
it : on doing which, I found, by gentle examination, the cyst so 
deep, as apparently to have communication with the cavity of 
the chest. This rather alarmed me, and I told my employer to 
expect dangerous consequences, if not death, to follow. The 
poultice was continued, and the breast and body all the timekept 
warm. 
On the next day the patient was enormously anasarcous in 
both her legs, her belly, and other parts of the body. The 
pulse sunk so low, and became so feeble, as scarcely to be per- 
ceptible. The fever symptoms were now all gone, and the mare 
seemed to be recovering her appetite. 
I inquired concerning her urine, and was told that her water 
was dark-coloured. On hearing this, I gently irritated the mem- 
brane of the vagina with a peeled onion (a common practice here), 
in order to force her to stale; and in a minute or two a copious 
flow of black putrid-smelling urine came from her, without 
causing any apparent pain. In this extreme state of the disease 
I hardly knew what to do. Various things suggested themselves 
to my mind ; but the medicines most likely to remove the enor- 
mous anasarca on the one hand, and the heematurial symptoms 
on the other, appeared to me to be those of diuretics, cordials, 
and astringents combined together. I, therefore, gave them, as 
the last resource, but without avail, for the mare died. 
On post-mortem examination, I found the lungs were full of 
tubercles, and much inflated with emphysema (is not this 
singular, seeing that her breathing during illness was not at all 
excited?) The heart was soft, and slightly inflamed, and the 
pericardium nearly filled with black fluid. The liver was of a 
dark ashy-green colour, and very much decomposed. All the 
other abdominal viscera were comparatively free from disease ; the 
stomach, however, excepted, a large round tumour being seen on 
its inner membrane, near its pyloric extremity. The knacker 
(I mean the carrion buyer), on seeing this, said, “ Sir, why 
here's a growth formed .” On opening it, more than a quart, 
I think, of white perfectly-formed pus came from it, and which 
led the enlightened person just mentioned to say to the owner, 
that “ all the vettenares in Lunnon could not have cured it } nor all 
the drugs in Larnson.” 
I am totally at a loss to account for the hccmaturial symptoms, 
unless it be by attributing it to the escape of a depraved bile 
(from the decayed substance of the liver) into the general circu- 
lation. The pericardium contained precisely the same kind of 
fluid. 
