DISEASES OF THE BLOOD IN DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 527 
Another disease of the uterus has lately come under my notice. 
In the month of May last, I was sent for to make a post-mortem 
examination of a heifer that was evidently dying : I found her still 
living, and a strange 'object she was. All the muscles from the 
loins backward were wasted to such an extent, that she had the 
appearance of bone only, covered with skin and hair. There was 
a discharge from the uterus like curdled milk, only more of a 
yellow colour: but, from her manner of breathing, I suspected 
that much mischief would be found in the lungs. She died almost 
immediately after my arrival. 
Post-mortem examination. —All the viscera of the abdomen 
were healthy, except the uterus, which was wasted away until it 
was no larger than a middling-sized apple. It was easily torn to 
pieces, and of the colour of the discharge already spoken of. All the 
thoracic viscera were healthy, except the lungs, which were much 
diseased. 
Remarks. —Five weeks previous to this she was in calf, 
although not at her full time. The owner thought she wanted to 
calve, which, however, proved not to be the case ; but as she kept 
on straining, a cowleech was called in, who put her under treat¬ 
ment for inflammation of the neck of the bladder, as he called it. 
In a fortnight after the first attack she produced a fine calf, which 
died shortly afterwards; the placenta also came away on the same 
day, but she still kept on straining. In a few days the discharge 
already spoken of began to flow, and kept increasing until a little 
while before her death. Had not the lungs become involved and 
caused her death, I believe that at no very distant time the uterus 
would have nearly disappeared. 
A MEMOIR ON THE ESSENTIAL ALTERATIONS OF 
THE BLOOD IN THE PRINCIPAL DOMESTIC 
ANIMALS. 
By M. Delafond, Professor of Pathology in the Roy alVeter inary 
School at Alfort. 
[Concluded from page 291.] 
II.— Diseases of the Blood attributable to Alteration 
and Diminution of the Globules. 
Species I. —Diseases 'produced hy the diminution of the normal 
quantity of the globules, with loss of blood externally during life. 
Diarrhemie (^/«ppew I run, uhj^ci blood, FLUX OF BLOOD) of blood. 
Under this denomination M. Delafond has described a disease of 
sheep long recognized by the names of la nialadie rouge, la ma- 
