ENTERITIS IN A GOAT. 
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on Friday, the purging still continuing, and the excretion being 
tinged with blood, a tea-spoonful or two of some astringent mix- 
ture was given. On Saturday the purging had nearly ceased, 
but otherwise the animal appeared to be rather worse : rumina- 
tion was suspended, and all kinds of food refused. 
I saw the goat about three o’clock on Saturday. I found her 
lying ; unable to rise ; quite heedless of ail around her ; the 
pupil of the eye was widely dilated ; the horns and ears hot. 
The limbs were powerless ; at least, though she could move them 
a little while lying, she could not stand, nor put out her legs when 
she was held up. She moaned a little; moved her head to and fro ; 
butted at the hand when her head was touched ; and she con- 
stantly attempted to fill her mouth with straw, which, after 
getting, she did not place between the grinders, but seemed con- 
tent to bruise between the vacant spaces of the jaws. I suspect 
that she could not open her mouth very widely. The conjunc- 
tiva was pale; but the heart beat vigorously, and the veins on 
the surface were full. The jugular vein was opened : the blood 
flowed freely ; it was more like arterial than venous blood. An 
ounce of sulph. magnesiae was given in water. 
At night, about nine, she died, having gradually become very 
restless, and often attempting to change her position without the 
power to rise. 
The body was examined next morning. The paunch contained 
a considerable quantity of food, which was moist and healthy, 
and composed of beans, bran, and hay. There was very little 
air. The second and third stomachs each contained a little 
food, moister and more perfectly comminuted than that in the 
first. The fourth was moderately distended with air, but void of 
everything else. The intestines, with the exception of the 
caecum, had nothing in them but air, and of that just sufficient 
to shew their form. A portion, about a yard long, was intensely 
inflamed. All the coats and the connecting cellular tissues were 
gorged with dark venous blood ; the intestine was thickened, 
apparently by effusion into the cellular connexion. The peri- 
toneum was less affected than the other coats. The brain and 
spinal marrow could not be examined. There was no disease in 
the chest, and the muscular and other textures appeared not to 
have undergone any change. 
The original disease, l think, was dysentery. Some musty 
bran, which had been given to the goat on Wednesday, was 
blamed for producing purgation. 
I regret that the brain could not be examined ; and the more, 
since an old fellow-pupil, Mr. Gardner, has informed me, that in 
examining the head of a cow that died of puerperal fever, he 
