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o’clock she began to be afraid to move, for she fell almost as soon 
as she stirred a limb. She however soon got up again; but before 
eleven she was unable to accomplish this : soon after that she 
ceased to make the attempt—she lay quiet—unconscious, and 
died without a struggle before twelve. She was not ill five hours. 
Circumstances prevented an assembly of the scientific members 
of the society for the purpose of dissecting her until the 26th. 
The stench, when she was first opened, was of a peculiarly oppres¬ 
sive character, and exceeded any thing I had ever experienced. 
I do not recollect any fetor that approached to it. The standers- 
by and the keepers stole away, one after another, and left me 
and my pupil, and a young man from the College of Surgeons, to 
accomplish the business; and well would it have been for me if 
I had gone too; for either the draught blowing upon me or the 
stench sent me to my bed again for six long weeks. 
When the contents of the abdomen were first exposed, in situ, 
there was scarcely any difference in their appearance from that 
which might have been expected, considering that the animal 
had been dead nearly three days, except that there was a some¬ 
what unusual pallid, bluish lividness. There were, here and 
there, spots, patches of a darker hue, but they did not wear the 
character of inflammation. The whole intestinal canal was evi¬ 
dently filled by some fluid, with an inconsiderable proportion of 
flatus. 
The intestines were then opened. The smaller ones were filled 
by a whey-coloured fluid, with a tinge of yellow, and of a most 
offensive smell. They also, and the jejunum particularly, con¬ 
tained at least a hundred worms, of the teres species, but smaller 
than those usually found in the horse, and with some points of 
difference from them. There was not the slightest inflammation 
of any portion of the small intestines. A little quantity of half- 
masticated hay swam in the fluid. 
The larger intestines were filled with a fluid of a somewhat 
browner colour, and more offensive. A greater quantity of food 
was swimming in it. The inferior portion of the colon exhibited 
a few dark dull patches, but, otherwise, was more than usually 
free from injection. At the commencement of the colon, and 
about the caput coli, there were externally more decisive marks 
of inflammation; but it was not examined internally, for that and 
the caecum and the stomach were reserved for the Museum of 
the College of Surgeons. To all external appearance, the caecum 
was devoid of inflammation. 
The liver was of a livid blue colour—very friable—and the 
duct filled, not turgid, with bile. 
The spleen appeared to be enlarged, and was friable. 
