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Its respiration was increased. Repeat the aperient, and admi- 
nister enemata. In the course of the afternoon it died. 
Examination. — On the villous portion of the stomach, within 
its greater curvature, was a patch, at least three inches in cir- 
cumference, of intense inflammation, and as red as scarlet. The 
stomach was half filled with soft food, and of a yellowish colour. 
There was very great inflammation of the mucous membrane of 
the intestines. The inflammation did not occupy one continuous 
space, but there were patches of from four inches to a foot in places 
that were otherwise tolerably healthy. The inflammation was also 
in irregular circular streaks round the intestine of one-eighth of an 
inch in width. There was a small similar patch of intense inflam- 
mation on the mucous coat, at the blind end of the caecum, as 
well as in the stomach. 
The rectum had been ruptured by the owner, by too forcibly 
clystering. There was, perhaps, half an ounce of serum within 
the pericardium. The brain and all other parts were sound. 
A portion of faecal matter had oozed out through the ruptured 
part of the rectum, and there were nearly two quarts of effusion 
in the cavity of the abdomen. 
Observations . — It appears that three large lettuces had been 
eaten by this pig the day before, when he appeared quite well. 
Did they cause the disease in his head (if any) and in the bowels ? 
What produced the excessive inflammation in his stomach ? He 
had had no other medicine than the ol. ricin. to produce any 
fatal purgative action, and his bowels were quite relaxed. 
Case II. — In the month of May last, I was called in to look 
at a pig of Mr. Kempster’s, that had been ill a couple of days. 
It was lying down in a high state of fever, and breathing 
laboriously ; and would not, I think, have lived long. It had 
been in a similar state most of the day, and had a large quantity 
of pulv. jalapae given to it. I ordered it to be killed. 
Examination . — I could discover nothing amiss, except a patch 
of inflammation, as in the last case, in the stomach, and some in 
the intestines. 
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Ry the same. 
On Dec. 20th, 1835, I was sent for to see two pigs that were 
ill, belonging to Mr. Parker, of the wharf, in this town. 
Symptoms . — In one there was great stupor, and indifference 
to move about. He was very weak, and would fall on his knees 
