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excessively thick and black, an invariable sign of approaching 
dissolution: a bottle of ol. ricini was administered, which pro¬ 
duced another ejection from the stomach. Warm water was 
occasionally horned down; the extremities were again stimu¬ 
lated ; the abdomen was bathed continually, and enemas fre¬ 
quently injected. He rolled about, getting up again, and then 
crouching with all four legs together. He continued in this 
dreadful agonizing state, without the least cessation of pain, 
until 11 P.M., when he expired. 
Appearances after Death .—The stomach was distended with 
grain, grass, and liquid ; the villous coat slightly inflamed. In 
the duodenum, three inches posterior to the entrance of the 
ductus hepaticus, was a complete stricture. That portion of 
intestine anterior to the stricture was awfully distended, and in 
a gangrenous state. The bloodvessels of the mucous coat were 
ruptured, and two or three ounces of blood had escaped, which 
was mixed with the food. This accounts for the repeated expul¬ 
sion of liquids from the stomach. 
The posterior part of the jejunum was inflamed ; the caecum 
was cedematous, and filled with dry, hard fecal matter. The 
colon was inflamed; but the other abdominal viscera were 
healthy : the contents of the thorax and pelvis in a healthy 
state. 
[We believe this to be the only case on record of stricture of 
this intestine.— Edit.] 
THE EXTIRPATION OF THE LYMPHATIC GLANDS 
IN FARCY. 
Bj/ M. Maurice, Af. F., Is^ Reg. of Artillery. 
During the last twelve years I have usually had at least 
ten farcied horses at a time in my infirmary; and the mode of 
practice on them which I am now about to describe has usually 
been successful. 
The seat of the disease is the lymphatic system, and the 
causes which render it enzootic in our regiments are bad food, 
unhealthy situations, particular kinds of work, and, sometimes, 
climate. Delay in the administration of medicines, circum¬ 
stances which imperiously retard the performance of the opera¬ 
tion, or negligence on the part of the proprietor, and, occa¬ 
sionally, of the veterinary surgeon, render the disease incurable. 
