568 CONTRIBUTIONS TO COMPARATIVE PATHOLOGY. 
being permitted to get at too much of her corn, was not the 
cause of death. The medicines had effect on this, if it ever 
existed, and would probably have conquered it. 
There was intense inflammation of the omental and mesenteric 
portions of the peritoneum. The injection of the vessels was 
singularly beautiful ; yet not one inch of the peritoneal covering 
— the external coat — of the intestines was affected. There was 
considerable effusion of bloody serous fluid in the abdomen. It 
was precisely what we see so often in sheep. This animal had 
been removed, for the sake of its beautiful appearance, too early 
from the farm, — from a dry and sandy soil, — and brought to a 
low, and clayey and damp one. On the one, when not gambol- 
ling about its dam, it could repose with comfort and safety 
— here it was chilled by the cold and damp. The perito- 
neal inflammation was the result, the natural reaction of the 
omental portion of the mesentery most exposed to the ungenial 
influence of its new locality. A lesson of experience may be 
derived from this. 
Chronic Intestinal Inflammation. 
Oct. 26th, 1833. — White Goat. Has been getting thin 
lately, and will now scarcely eat. Purges somewhat violently. 
Give an ounce of castor oil; and at night, two of the opiate nuts 
— gingerbread nuts, with a small quantity of opium. 
27th . — Very little change. Continue the oil and the nuts. 
28th . — No change. Give half an ounce of the astringent 
powder in gruel. 
31. The purging abated, but the animal refuses all food. 
Continue the powder. 
Nov. 2. — Died. The lungs were hepatized in some parts, 
and emphysematous in others. The emphysema extended deeply 
round all the edges — then succeeded the parenchyma, of its 
natural substance, for a little way, but it soon began to assume a 
denser character. There was neither inflammation nor conges- 
tion. The liver was healthy, but the gall-bladder was much 
distended. The first three stomachs presented no character of 
disease; the fourth was considerably inflamed, and the inflam- 
mation appeared in patches through the whole of the small 
intestines. The vessels of the mesentery were much injected, 
and false membranes were beginning to form about the convolu- 
tions of the small intestines. There appeared to be no cause of 
immediate death, but the animal seemed to have perished from 
the continuance of sub-acute inflammation, involving both the 
serous and mucous coats. 
