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any thing* for two or three days at first, but would not feed during 
the last two or three. T did not see her alive, but had this account 
from the owner. 
Examination .' — I opened her in less than an hour after her death. 
The person that stuck her immediately after she died said that her 
blood was gone to nothing, but was like the urine she had dis- 
charged. The paunch had upwards of a wheelbarrow-full of soft, 
well-comminuted food in it, mixed with a great deal of water. The 
second stomach had a little liquid faeces in it. The third stomach 
was not above half full, and what was in it was very soft. There 
was not the least vestige of disease or discolouration either in this or 
the other two preceding stomachs. The fourth stomach had nothing 
in it but a small portion of liquid faeces. It had a very unhealthy 
appearance, being of a smoky or blackish cast, and the reflections 
or plaits were somewhat thickened, and infiltrated with serum. 
I did not examine the interior of the intestines, although I ought 
to have done so ; but to all appearance they were sound. 
The left kidney was of a similar colour to those of Mr. Cot- 
greave’s cows, but not quite so distinctly marked. The spots were 
much smaller. It was a very plump one, and seemed enlarged. 
The right kidney had a tumour which occupied the space of one 
of its lobes, and contained nearly an ounce of clear serous fluid. 
Its covering resembled a thin bladder. One of the other lobes, at 
the opposite end, was of a much lighter colour. It contained a little 
fluid, and appeared almost as if absorption of its substance was 
taking place, and a cyst was forming, like that just mentioned. 
Its texture was very different to that of the other kidney, and did 
not seem as if it secreted properly. In some of its tubes I found 
small calculi half the size of a pea. Each of these kidneys (espe- 
cially the left) was much infiltrated with a fluid similar to that in 
the bladder, and which could be easily squeezed out. This kidney 
(the left) did not seem red or inflamed, but presented more an ap- 
pearance of softening and congestion, and almost approaching to 
disorganization. The bladder contained about a pint of urine of a 
dark brown colour, but scarcely thicker than usual : the bladder 
itself was sound. The gall-bladder was sound, but filled with about 
three pints of bile of a brown colour, and as thick as treacle when 
melted. The liver was as sound as it generally is. 
The Lungs :■ — -In two places at the posterior extremity of one of 
the lungs there was a great deal of disease ; indeed, there was 
complete disorganization, as matter was forming in points almost 
all over these places, and extending in patches as large as a hand. 
These patches had a distinct line of demarcation between them 
and the sound portion, and I fancy had little if any thing to do 
in producing her death, or perhaps even any recognizable illness 
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