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1 conceive that they were primarily an affection of the mucous 
coat of the bowels. This variety of the disease is characterized 
by the animal striking its belly, frequently lying down, and 
shifting from side to side. The pulse is quick, the nose dry, 
and the eyes shrunk in their orbits; rumination and the secre¬ 
tion of milk are suspended ; depression of strength supervenes, 
and the beast becomes unable to rise. The alvine excretions are 
voided in large quantities ; they are fetid, of a dark colour, and 
extremely fluid. 
In these cases I have succeeded with calomel and opium, 
aromatics, 8cc.; copious draughts of starch or arrow-root, with 
clysters of starch and powdered opium. 
In some of those patients that died of diarrhoea, and which I 
have dissected, the manypliis was distended with cakes of indu¬ 
rated food, which adhered so firmly to the leaves of the stomach 
that it was impracticable to empty it without tearing them. The 
membranous coat of the abomasum and intestinal canal pre¬ 
sented an irritated surface, slightly injected and partially thick¬ 
ened. In one subject the liver was enlarged, and the gall-bladder 
contained a small quantity of black viscid bile. But in others 
the livers were small, of a dark colour, and firm texture. The 
gall-bladders were enlarged, and the bile exhibited different 
morbid changes, being thin, and of a pale colour, or turbid, re¬ 
sembling a mixture of turmeric and water ; and one of them, 
which was filled with turbid bile and concretion, weio-hed twelve 
pounds. The mucous coat of the bowels was injected, but there 
was more uniformity in their appearance. 
HYPERTROPHY OF THE HEART. 
By M. IIuVELLIER. 
On the 29th of August 1831, 1 was requested to open a cow, 
five years old, in moderate condition, and that had died during 
the period of warranty. As she was led from the fair, she was 
seized with frequent cough, and with so much difficulty of 
breathing that she was obliged, every now and then, to stand 
still. vShe lived three days, eating very little ; she was then 
seized with another fit of coughing, and fell, and died in a moment. 
Both lobes of the lungs were sound. The heart, of an enormous 
size, was surrounded by membranes thick and hard, and which 
seemed to be folds of the pericardium, and from which they could 
scarcely be distinguished. In cutting into them in order to arrive 
at the heart, nothing could be perceived but a gross, irregular, 
thickened mass, very soft, offering to the touch, where it was 
