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1 therefore opened the other jugular vein, and abstracted as 
much blood as I could get, which was about four quarts ; and 
gave 3iij aloes in solution. I also ordered clysters to be admi- 
nistered every quarter of an hour. I then left her until ten 
o’clock, when 1 found her apparently a little better. 1 therefore 
thought we might leave her for the night. 
3d, Jive o'clock , a.m. — She is a great deal worse : the legs and 
ears very cold, the pulse not to be felt at the heart nor the jaw ; 
no purging or rumbling sound in the abdomen. I opened the 
jugular vein once more, but could obtain very little blood. It 
had the appearance of tar. 1 despaired of saving her, and left 
her for a little while, in order to attend another patient. She 
died very soon after I was gone. 
Post-mortem examination forty-eight hours after death . — On 
opening the abdomen, a great quantity of the food was observed 
to be floating about loose, but the large intestines were still dis- 
tended. The food consisted chiefly of the fruit of the hawthorn. 
The caecum was slightly inflamed, the stomach was also dis- 
tended, and several hard large wedge-like substances, consisting 
of the stones and stems of the haws, were matted together. 
On taking the stomach out, I found a rupture in it seven or 
eight inches in length, through which part of the food had 
escaped. The lungs were a little inflamed, but the inflammation 
had apparently taken place only a short time prior to death. 
THE VETERINARIAN, JULY 1, 1836. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
THE LONDON VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
Once more, and I trust for the last time, this strange, and 
disgusting subject is obtruded on the readers of The Veterina- 
rian. The old members of the society will accept our thanks 
for the promptness with which they have answered to our call 
in the last number of this periodical. They will forgive us, how- 
ever, if we confine ourselves to two points, confirmatory, if con- 
firmation had been wanted, of the accuracy of our statement. 
We have a letter from Mr. Cowie, the chairman on the night 
