ON THE LYMPHATICS. 
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that the second class of lacteals were capable of becoming of a 
similar character to the red veins. 
CASE I. 
A horse died of inflammation of the lungs. On examination, 
after death, he was found to have a chronic disease of the liver. 
As the liver was removed, I was much struck with its great in¬ 
crease in size; and while examining more particularly into this, I 
was still more surprised at finding all the lymphatic vessels be¬ 
longing to the peritoneal covering of the liver greatly enlarged, 
and containing dark red blood. I next examined the thoracic 
duct, and found it full of dark red blood, and which had coagu¬ 
lated firmly in many places. The lymphatics in all the other 
parts of the body were of their usual appearance. 
CASE II. 
A glandered horse was destroyed. On our examining into 
the state of the lungs, &c., after death, a great number of tu¬ 
bercles were found in many parts of them; and on our minutely 
examining into the state of the parts diseased, all the lymphatic 
vessels which arose from them were much larger in size than 
common, and contained red blood ; while, on the contrary, on 
all those parts of the lungs which were healthy, the lymphatics 
presented their usual transparent appearance. I next examined 
the contents of the abdomen, and found the left lobe of the liver 
slightly diseased, and the lymphatics from it filled with red 
blood: the right lobe was healthy, and its lymphatics were in 
their natural state. The fluid in the thoracic duct was almost 
as red as venous blood. 
[To be continued.] 
THE EDUCATION OF THE HORSE. 
By Mr. W. F. Karkeek, F.S., Truro. 
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“And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast 
of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air; upon all that moveth upon 
the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they 
delivered.” 
This* all powerful law, which secured empire to man—the 
presumptuous but needy lord of the creation—over his elder 
brethren (for he came into a world already tenanted with in- 
