THK PKCULIAH APPEARANCE OF THE LIVER. 
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the slightest degree of lameness. The lotion was still applied, not 
indeed, constantly, but four or five times every day, until the en¬ 
largement had entirely subsided; and then she was dismissed. 
Notwithstanding the unfavourable prognosis which I had felt 
it my duty to give respecting this case on my first visit, and my 
unpardonable fault afterwards, I esteemed myself happy, and I was 
indeed rejoiced to restore to the owner his mare in as good and ser¬ 
viceable a state as before the accident. In fifteen days after the 
occurrence of the accident she was able to resume her former 
labours. 
I afterwards asked myself, to what cause could I attribute the 
absence of inflammation in the joint after so serious an injury? 
Rightly or wrongly, I have explained it in this way. Powerful 
refrigerants were continually employed on the injured part, and 
almost immediately after the accident; but, more especially I 
think, the accidental and strangely copious bleeding to which the 
animal was subjected was the principal if not the only cause of 
her escape. 
THE PECULIAR APPEARANCE OF THE LIVER 
IN TWO HORSES. 
By Mr. J. Tombs, V.S.^ Per shore. 
Feb. I8//i, 1839.—I WAS requested by Mr. W. of F-y, four 
miles hence, to superintend the post-mortem examination of an old 
black mare of his. She had been unwell three weeks, according 
to the owner’s statement, but underwent no medical treatment, 
being old and nearly worn out. Three days prior to death she had. 
frightful oedema of the head; and the day before she gave up the 
ghost her tongue swelled tremendously, and hung out of the mouth. 
She had been broken-winded for many years. 
Appearances .—The carcass had such an abominable stench that 
it was almost impossible to approach it. There was effusion of 
serum between the skin and cellular tissue of the head, tongue, 
and lining membrane of the sinuses of the head, which were in a 
gangrenous state. The lungs were very soft in texture, discoloured, 
and considerably diminished in size; the air-cells not ruptured, as 
is generally supposed in broken-wind, but very much enlarged and 
thickened. The heart was wasted to about half its usual size, and 
was very flabby; its parietes were so exceedingly thin that it was 
surprising how the blood could bo forced into the lungs, much more 
to all parts of the body. Tin; omentum was black and rotten. The 
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