• DISORGANIZATION OF THE LIVER, &C. 261 
lightened practitioners, that your correspondent would fain per¬ 
suade the world and himself that we are. 
I shall be too happy at all times to record my gratitude for 
any amendments that may be really looked upon as such, when¬ 
ever it may please the governors of the College to make them ; 
and I shall be much more ready to take up my pen to set forth 
such to the public than to be detailing, and that but imperfect¬ 
ly, the flagrant abuses that do now exist: but still I shall always 
prefer an honest endeavour to expose such evils, although at the 
expense of some compunctious feelings, to the quiet reign of 
injuries that should only require to be brought to light to be an¬ 
nihilated. Your obedient servant, 
W. J. G. 
CASE OF INFLAMMATION AND DISORGANIZATION 
OF THE LIVER, WITH EFFUSION. 
By Mr. J. M. Hales, V. S. } Oswestry. 
Upon the 3d of last February, I was called to a thorough-bred 
mare, the property of R. Middleton Biddulph, Esq., M. P., of 
Chick Castle. When I went into the bin where my patient was, 
the groom said, “ This is a curious case, for there is neither 
fever, inflammation, or pain; but she won’t eat, and is gone to 
a bag of bones, and the only way in which w r e can keep her 
alive is, by drenching her with gruel.” The mare was a most 
excellent hunter, thirteen or fourteen years old, and Mr. Bid¬ 
dulph being in town, had, three weeks ago, lent her to a friend for 
a little hunting, at which time she was in beautiful condition. 
The first day the gentleman rode her he found she was not as 
she used to be—was out of sorts; but not suspecting that any 
thing was materially amiss with her, he hunted her twice more, 
and found upon each occasion that she was worse and worse; 
and began to los flesh rapidly; and five days since she was 
brought back to her own stable, and has continued getting lower 
in flesh, and is now, as the groom observes, a bag of bones. 
When the Schneiderian membrane, mouth, and eyelids were 
examined, they were found of a pale yellow colour; she was 
costive, and dunged but seldom, and has passed nothing since 
yesterday ; but this was attributed to the small quantity of food 
she took: pulse 50; she was bled three days back by the 
groom. There could scarcely be a doubt in this case, that the 
liver was the principal if not the only seat of disease; and, un¬ 
der that impression, she was ordered small doses of calomel and 
aloes, with sulphate of potash to be given every day; and to be 
