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able by the influence of the muscles of the eye: it looked like 
the cornea or the body of the eye that became opaque. The 
fowl died suddenly. 
On opening it, a concrete mass was found between the eyelids 
and the globe of the eye, free from all adhesion either to the 
one or the other, and resembling pus, the most fluid part of 
which had been reabsorbed. The eye was perfectly sound. The 
buccal membrane was healthy. A little redness appeared at the 
commencement of the intestinal canal—no part of that canal 
contained any food. The brain was not examined. 
Had it not been for this examination, we should have been 
sure that there was enlargement and opacity of the eye—whereas 
there was no such thing; and it would have been the easiest 
thing in the world to have apparently cured that eye by re¬ 
moving this singular deposit. 
Journal, Juin 1835. 
[We have met with four of these cases. We completely mis¬ 
understood the two first, and dismissed the patients as incurable : 
but while examining the third—a troublesome fellow—we thought 
that the motion of the diseased eye did not quite correspond 
with that of the other ; and then—shame on our former superfi¬ 
cial examinations !—we discovered the cheat. It was a foreign 
body, precisely such as M. Dupuy describes, and which we imme¬ 
diately drew out. This, however, was not connected with any 
other malady, as in the case of M. Dupuy. We suspect that 
this is not at all an uncommon disease.—Y.] 
FlLARIiE IN THE GREAT MESENTERIC OF 
A HORSE. 
-Bj/ the same. 
The great mesenteric artery of a horse that was examined 
after death presented a circular dilatation which enclosed a puri- 
form lamellous bed, a line in thickness, and very hard. In the 
middle of this pseudo-membranous bed we found a considerable 
number of the strongyli filarige. This membrane was easily de¬ 
tached ; and beneath it we found the proper tunic, unaltered. 
One of the divisions of the anterior mesenteric presented a con¬ 
siderable injection of the capillary vessels, between the internal 
and central membrane. 
