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CASES OF SCIIIUROUS MESENTERIC GLANDS. 
make a sudden and violent contraction of the abdominal muscles, 
accompanied with an elevation of the back; but, in consequence 
of not being able to detect any indurated substance in the abdo¬ 
men, I did not pay much attention to it, as she was naturally of 
an irritable habit. I conjectured that she was labouring under 
debility, and, in all probability, would recover; and ordered her 
to be taken into the stable at night, and to have a feed of corn 
morning and evening, and to be turned out during the day. I 
also sent six balls, compounded of carbonate of ammonia, pow¬ 
dered bark, ginger, camphor, and oil of aniseed, and made up 
with simple syrup,—one to be taken on each alternate day. With 
this treatment she improved in condition, and was apparently 
doing well, until May the 29th, at which time I was requested, in 
great haste, to see her. The servant said she was labouring under 
inflammation of the bowels. On my visiting her, she had all the 
symptoms of that complaint, and I treated the case as such, but 
which treatment did not afford the slightest relief. She died 
about 2 p. m. 
Post-mortem appearances .—The stomach was distended, with 
its villous coat injected, and about the termination of the jejunum 
into the ileum, the intestine encircled a schirrous mesenteric gland : 
the coats of that portion of the intestine were considerably thick¬ 
ened, and the mucous coat in a gangrenous state, with a stricture 
anterior to the inflamed-part, which would not admit the feculent 
matter into the diseased portion of the gut. The tumour was 
nearly oblong, weighing 4fb, situated transversely in the abdo¬ 
men, and inclining to the near side; one part was of a scrophu- 
lous texture, and the other appeared to be layers of coagulated 
lymph, with a cavity in the centre containing a yellow serous 
fluid. The mesentery was considerably thickened, from the 
tumour to the spine. 
CASE II. 
Oct. 10 thy 1829.—A red cow, six years old. 
Symptoms .—Depression of countenance; eyes shrunk in the 
orbits; conjunctival, nasal, and mucous membranes very pale; 
stripes of cuticle surrounding the eyes, nose, and mouth, of a 
pale yellow; pulse 64, and small; respiration limited; disinclina¬ 
tion to move ; with considerable distention of the abdomen. 
On passing my hand along the parietes of the iliac region, be¬ 
tween the tuberosity of the ileum and the last rib on the off side, 
I could distinctly feel a large tumour, which would not yield to 
pressure. I considered the case hopeless, and advised the gen¬ 
tleman to whom the cow belonged to have her destroyed. He 
replied, that she was worth nothing in her present state, but that 
