BABIES AND CONGESTION OF THE Bit AIN. 315 
7th. 11 a.m. — Died. In about four hours after she was dead, 
I made an 
Examination . — As she lay on the ground, there was a quantity 
of white froth at her nostrils as large as a fist. I first laid open 
the abdomen, which exhibited but little disease: there was a 
slight extravasation of blood in the connecting cellular membrane 
near the third and fourth stomachs. The rectum was full of 
lumps of hard faeces. The first, second, and third stomachs were 
beautifully sound. The first was three parts filled with the hay, 
straw, and rubbish that she had eaten, and it was moist. The 
second had but little in it, and that was almost fluid. The third 
was full, and the food had a greenish tint, and was soft. The 
fourth had but little in it, and that was very soft and almost 
fluid, and of a dark brown colour; its mucous coat was of a 
much darker colour than usual, and rather thickly covered with 
mucus. It was decidedly in an unhealthy state, if it could not 
be said to be inflamed. The intestines had little amiss about 
them. I then sawed open the head, from the nose to the neck, 
and there I found the most severe disease. The Schneiderian 
membrane was highly inflamed, and under a large portion of it 
was great extravasation of blood. The pharynx was also highly 
inflamed and of a dark sanguineous hue. On looking at the out- 
side of the anterior portion of the trachea, the spaces between the 
cartilages were filled with, to all appearance, extravasated blood, 
and these spaces shewed a distinct red line between the carti- 
lages. On cutting open the larynx, trachea, and bronchial tubes, 
they were found to be filled with foam, in a complete state, if I 
may say so, of fermentation. These parts were highly diseased, 
shewing in many places the bloodvessels ramifying beautifully 
on them, but especially so on that covering the posterior portions of 
the trachea that lap over each other. Throughout the whole of 
the lungs the bronchial tubes were filled with froth and mucus, 
and their lining membrane was of a darker colour than natural ; 
there was evidently considerable secretion from it. There was 
no disease or inflammation in *the brain or spinal marrow, but, 
on cutting the oti* shoulder away, I was enabled to examine the 
large branches of nerves forming and radiating from the axillary 
plexus, and found on them numerous spots of ecchymosis, both 
on the theca and on the nerves themselves. This was the case on 
the pneumogastric and many other perves. 
Case II. — On the 7th of April 1841, towards night, Mr. 
Dickins supposed there was something the matter with another 
of his yearling calves, as she was seen standing under a hedge, 
and did not come to some turnips that the others were eating; 
he therefore put her up for the night, and when he was taking 
