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SKETCHES OF THE ANCIENT HISTORY OP 
a natural colour; the eyes were not yellow, nor was there any 
tension of the right hypochondriac region ; neither was pain 
produced when I applied pressure to it: however, a blister was 
rubbed on the region of the liver, and hydrarg. submur. ad¬ 
ministered every day. This treatment was strictly followed up 
for three weeks, when the animal became suddenly worse :—• 
Pulse 90 and soft; an agonizing pain, and excessive lameness in 
the off hind leg; she was continually lifting it up, and could not 
bear any weight to be thrown on it. In two days a prodigious 
swelling, exceedingly painful to the touch, made its appearance 
on the inside of the same thigh. The thigh was continually 
fomented. In the course of a week she could not rise without 
assistance: she remained in this distressing state another week, 
when death terminated her sufferings. 
Post-mo7'tem appearances. — Thorax: lungs slightly hepa- 
tized ; pleura pulmonalis and costalis inflamed : no effusion. 
Abdomen: liver three times its natural size, and containing 
innumerable small abscesses. The majority of the lymphatic 
glands of the mesentery in a state of suppuration. The tubuli 
uriniferi of the right kidney distended with pus. An amazingly 
large abscess was situated between the aforesaid kidney and the 
psoas muscle. This abscess communicated with another large 
one in the right thigh, between the gracilis and the vastus inter- 
nus muscles, and which contained a gallon of matter. 
Remarks. —It is very probable that, when she was ill in the 
spring of the year, the cold and sore throat were accompanied 
by strangles ; and instead of the natural process taking place— 
that of an abscess forming between the angles of the jaw— 
Nature, in one of her strange, unaccountable freaks, deposited 
the impurities of the blood in the abovementioned situations. 
SKETCHES OF THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF SOME 
OF THE DOMESTICATED ANIMALS; 
From Dr. FardneTs interesting Volumes on the Arts of the Greeks 
and Romans, in his ** Cabinet Cyclopaedia ” 
APER, THE BOAR, 
As a dish, was well known to the Romans. It was served as 
the pr'ima mensa, or first course. At first, simple joints only 
were served; but as ostentation increased, the whole boar ap¬ 
peared on the mensa —sometimes with the choicest joints in its 
inside. At length, there was even one to each guest—a degree 
