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nencementr of the third stomach, there was great thickening of 
ts coats, effusion of lymph and blood, and in some places ulcer- 
ition. 
CASE III. 
Another bullock was taken ill on the same Wednesday, and 
lied on the Saturday following. The symptoms were the same, 
md much purging medicine was given. 
Dissection. —The contents of the third stomach were soft, but 
:he stomach was very full. The rumen or paunch contained 
much undigested hay, which had improperly been given; but 
:he mass was perfectly soft, and a considerable quantity of fluid 
n it. 
CASE IV. 
A two-year old bullock was taken unwell on Saturday, the 3d 
)f November, 1827, and was obliged to be left on the road, after 
having gone about two miles. He had the same symptoms as 
die foregoing. He also had had much cathartic medicine given 
:o him, and on Monday morning following, no dung having yet 
passed through him, and the owner thinking he would not re¬ 
cover, he was sold to a butcher. 
Dissection. —His third stomach was very full (like the pre¬ 
ceding case), but soft. 
Four others got well; but it was eight or nine days before any 
medicine operated, although large quantities were given. They 
lay down all the time until their bowels were opened, and ate 
grass. 
One other was obliged to be killed on the road, having the 
same complaint, the morning they left Bangor, where they had 
been grazing. 
Two others were taken ill at Ivetsy Bank (twenty-three miles 
distant) with the same complaint; but what became of them I do 
not know. 
Three heifers were lost the same week in Lord Combermere’s 
park, in this neighbourhood, by eating dead leaves, producing 
the same disease. 
In the third stomach of every one of them there were a great 
number of small seeds from some plant, and which were seen in 
the field they were grazing in at Bangor*. 
Observations. 
It is not at all improbable that the seeds found in the stomachs 
may have had some influence in producing the disease by pa- 
* Will Mr. Cartwright kindly favour us with the name, or a description 
or specimen, of this plant.— Editors. 
