(i38 CONTRIBUTIONS TO COMPARATIVE PATHOLOGY. 
13th . — The physic operated well, and the breathing is quieter ; 
but the animal is sinking. 
J 5th . — Bowels still open. He ate the liver of a sheep freshly 
killed, but he could not be induced to touch a piece in which 
was calomel. 
17th . — Refuses altogether to eat. 
19th . — Still will not eat or drink. Sinking. 
20th. — Dead. I naturally expected to find the chief morbid 
appearances in the lungs. They were emphysematous around 
their edges, and there were some spots of hepatization, but no 
tubercles. The heart was enlarged and flabby ; but the causes 
of death were in the abdomen. There was chronic inflammation 
of the peritoneal membrane in every part. The mesentery was 
opaque, and the greater part of it covered with adventitious mat- 
ter in the form of thick flakes. The substance of the spleen was 
in a manner gone ; it was as emphysematous as the edges of the 
lungs. Neither the stomach nor mucous membrane of the intes- 
tines was inflamed. The liver presented one broken-down pulpy 
mass, of a greenish black hue. It was impossible to touch it 
without its giving way. The diaphragm was inflamed in the 
neighbourhood of the liver, but there was not a single adhesion 
through the whole of the abdominal cavity. 
Hepatitis — Ascites — Rupture of the Duodenum. 
1833, August 12th . — Chittah. He has not fed as usual 
for a few days past, and appears to be getting thin. He is a 
very tractable fellow ; and, on examining, I found that he was 
much thinner than he appeared to be at a distance; that his 
liver was enlarged, and that there was fluid in the abdomen. 
He was an old animal. Coax him to eat, and give him, morn- 
ing and night, two drachms each of tartrate of iron and gentian, 
one drachm of ginger, and four grains of powdered digitalis. 
l&th . — Very little difference, except that the appetite is worse. 
Coax him to eat, and continue the medicine. 
16^/i. — The animal will scarcely eat, but it laps some milk : 
there is, however, less fluid in the abdomen, and less enlarge- 
ment of the liver. Continue balls. 
17th . — No change. Continue balls. 
19th . — I am sure that the fluid and the enlargement of the 
liver are diminishing. 
21 st . — Very little' change, except that he is getting thinner, 
and his strength begins to fail. 
23 d . — Continued emaciation. Still give the same medicine. 
2 5th . — There can be no longer any doubt as to the termina- 
