436 A CASE OF RABIES IN THE HORSE. 
seemed to unite together the granules of the parotid gland, which 
were gorged with black blood. 
The muscular coat of the esophagus, of an orange-red colour, 
was easily torn ; the substance of the heart was also discoloured 
and softened, and its exterior surface presented several large 
black ecchymoses. 
The venoe cavae, the right auricle and ventricle, and the pulmo¬ 
nary artery and its divisions, were also filled with black coagulated 
blood. The pulmonary veins, the left auricle and ventricle, and 
the large arterial vessels, contained blood of a much lighter colour 
than in its natural state; large ecchymoses were found on the 
lining membrane, and the pericardium contained three pounds of 
red serosity. 
The tissue of the salivary and parotid glands was exceedingly 
red, as were also the surrounding parts. The liver was enlarged, 
gorged with black blood, and easily torn. The membrane lining 
the septum of the nose, the nasal cavities, the turbinated bones, 
and the guttural pouches, was thickened and infiltrated. That 
of the larynx, trachea, and bronchi, was of a violet hue, and all 
these passages were filled with mucous spume. 
The cineritious portion of the brain and spinal marrow was 
redder than in its natural state, and the medullary substance 
presented numerous little red spots. The mesian and lateral 
sinuses of the dura mater were filled with black blood. 
The membranes of the brain and the plexus choroides were 
very red, and the fringed or floating substance of the concretion 
was of a stony consistence. 
The spinal marrow was softened at various parts, and parti¬ 
cularly from the fifth cervical vertebra to the third dorsal. At 
the lumbar region it was fluid, or resembled a broken-down 
caseous matter. There was also a yellow infiltration about the 
roots of the nerves, and between the duplicature of the mem¬ 
branes which invested the spinal marrow. 
Journal Theor., Avril 1835. 
INFLAMMATION OF THE VEIN. 
Bi/ Mr. J. M. Hales, Oswestry. 
Inflammation of the jugular vein of the horse, as a conse¬ 
quence of bleeding, is a disease of considerable importance to 
the veterinary surgeon,—one that he frequently has to attend to, 
particularly in the summer season,—and one, the successful ter¬ 
mination of which mainly depends upon the efficiency, and, 
occasionally, upon the promptness, of the treatment employed. 
