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G AST KILO- ENTERITIS IN PIGS. 
afterwards he was drenched with sulphur. Soon after this his 
respiration increased, and he was greatly distressed, and, about 
three o’clock in the afternoon, he died. It appears that, some 
months previously, he was thought to have the epizootic, and 
walked on his knees, although nothing was visible between the 
claws to indicate the disease. Of this, however, he had got well ; 
yet the owner always thought there was something amiss with 
him. 
Examination . — He was three parts fat, and his flesh of an ex- 
cellent colour. The liver was rather of a darker colour, and 
softer than usual, and, I would say, not really healthy. The 
lining membrane of the stomach was of a reddish colour, and 
probably inflamed from the action of the sulphur. The heart , I 
found, was the cause of his sudden death ; in external appearance 
it was healthy, and no one, on looking at it, would have imagined 
there was such a disease within. The left auricle was sound, 
and not enlarged ; yet, on looking through it to the left ventricle, 
the ventricular opening was found to be in a great measure closed 
b y a loose, jagged, warty, fleshy excrescence, growing from the 
whole surface and circumference of the tricuspid valves, and 
filling up the intervening area, and which projected in its centre 
at least half an inch into the auricle, giving the whole almost the 
appearance of the os tincae. There was, in a few places on the 
inner lining of this ventricle, and near to the valves, a similar 
commencement of disease, and probably from contact. The re- 
mainder of the ventricle was sound. The auricle on the right 
side I thought to be a little larger than usual. — In this case there 
could not be a greater space in the auriculo-ventricular opening 
than would admit of the introduction of a goose-quill, nor even 
this, unless from the dilatation of the parts ; for, on looking at it, 
it appeared in a manner closed, except a very small opening near 
the aorta. 
GASTERO-ENTERITIS IN PIGS. 
By the same. 
Case I. — On the 27th of June last, Mr. Hort, of this town, 
observed one of his small pigs, about three months old, to be 
unwell and refusing food. It forced its head against any thing 
it came in contact with, and sometimes it would walk round 
and round for many times. It stood up most of the day, and 
was much swollen. Open the bowels with castor oil. 
28 th . — No better. It now lay down on its breast and fore 
legs, and continued in this posture the greater part of the day. 
