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HEART AND INTESTINAL DISEASE. 
ulcerated in isolated patches, and considerably thickened in 
those parts. The jejunum and ileum were the most affected. 
There was a great quantity of fat lining the cavity, and in 
some places it covered the intestines to a greater extent than 
I ever recollect to have seen. The meso-colon and meso- 
rectum contained a number of sanguineous tumours, or 
rather extravasations of blood covered merely by the perito- 
neum. On laying open the intestinal canal, the mucous coat 
throughout was healthy, except about the margin of the 
external ulcerations. The liver was diseased, being very soft, 
likewise the kidneys. I could crush them in my hand, and a 
section being made, they presented a mottled appearance, 
denoting fat. I now opened the thoracic cavity, and found 
the lungs and pleurae to have been affected with acute disease. 
The former were congested. The cavity contained a small 
quantity of effused lymph, which was becoming organized. I 
removed the heart whole, with portions of the large vessels, and 
cut through the pericardium, when a little fluid escaped, not 
so much, however, as I had expected to find, owing to the 
disease being confined principally to the structure of the heart 
itself, which organ was hypertrophied, and the cavities much 
reduced in size. I made sections of it in various directions, 
and like the kidneys, found it to present a mottled appear- 
ance. It was in a state of fatty degeneration. Dr. Morton 
placed a portion under his microscope, which showed such to 
be the case. Pericarditis and endocarditis were also present. 
I had almost forgotten to mention the stomach. This viscus 
was healthy, with the exception of a small abscess, which 
contained a cheesy-looking matter, and a few thread-like 
worms, which are common enough in most post-mortems 
out here. 
Liver diseases and weak loins ( u kumree/*) are the most 
prevalent maladies affecting the horse in this southern divi- 
sion of India. Of the former I have a beautiful dried speci- 
men of calcified liver, which resembles a mass of old dry 
mortar. 
Shortly after my arrival here I had two cases of weak 
loins destroyed. The post-mortem examination showed a 
softening of the spinal cord to exist, with a thickening and 
very vascular condition of the theca, especially of the 
arachnoid membrane. Also two cases of fractured femur 
from kicks, came under my notice. These were also destroyed. 
The above embrace all the cases deemed by me worth record- 
ing, and even these, I fear, may not possess much to interest 
your readers. 
