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PHRENIT1S IN DEKR. 
head The treatment, where treatment is practicable, is plain 
enough—depletion by the lancet and the physic drink; but who 
will give us a satisfactory relation of the cause or prevention . 
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Colonel Horner, of Mells Park, about twelve miles from 
hence has fine herds of deer, but since April last no less than 
sixty head of them have died of a malady of a very peculiar 
nature. Yesterday I received a letter from the medical .practi¬ 
tioner of that place, desiring me to come over and examine into 
the affair. I immediately proceeded thither. The first subject 
I was shewn was a fine buck, which had died in the climax o 
the disease the previous evening near a stream of water, t he 
keeper informed me that, when attacked with the disease the 
animal ran furiously at every thing, butting his antlers and head 
against the paling, trees, walls, or whatever opposed his 
onward course, and expired in three days from the commence¬ 
ment of the disease. He also informed me that the appearances 
were the same in every case which he had examined after deatn, 
excepting in the larynx. T r , 
I then proceeded to a post-mortem examination. I tirst 
dissected out a portion of the trachea, and found the membrane 
lining the larynx very highly inflamed, and the inflammation 
extending as far down as the bronchia}. The epiglottis was 
similar to a piece of scorched leather; the root of the tongue 
was also highly inflamed. I then proceeded to the stomachs, 
and I found”the rumen fully distended with food, viz. grass, 
leaves, pieces of chestnuts, sprigs of trees, &c., with a patch 
of slight inflammation on the cuticular coat, but not fully de¬ 
veloped : there was also a quantity of food in the duodenum; 
the termination of that and the commencement of the jejunum were 
also inflamed, and in the other intestines, which were quite empty, 1 
found patches of inflammation in detached places. 1 believe 
there had existed an obstruction in the bowels: the liver 1 found 
very much inflamed, particularly on the concave surface of the 
right lobe, where there were two or three enlargements of the 
ducts containing a quantity of flukes. The heart was very much en¬ 
larged, and the lungs exhibited patches of inflammation: the 
kidnies were in an unhealthy state. Lastly, I proceeded to the 
brain, and observed between the tunica arachnoides and pia 
mater patches of extravasation and inflammation, both on the 
cerebrum and cerebellum. I did not observe any thing pecu lai 
in the ventricles, nor in the spinal cord. f 
The next subject I was shewn was a live buck, strongly at- 
fected with the disease : he was recumbent when we approached 
