128 HYDROTHORAX, &C. IN A BULLOCK. 
turgesceiice of the vessels, beyond which nothing remarkable 
presented itself. Anxious to see the heart, I sawed through the 
ribs; elevated the sternum, and brought the pericardium into 
view, distended with about a gallon of yellow serum. The heart 
looked compressed, and of an unhealthy hue; but the pericar¬ 
dium, forming its external vest, together with the sac, was 
perfectly smooth, and free from incrustation of lymph. No in-? 
flammatory blush was observable on any part of the membrane ; 
nor did the sac contain any pus. I now examined the walls and 
interior of the organ; there was no thickening, no dilatation: 
the left ventricle presented extensive ecchymosis internally, the 
other cavities shewed no signs of lesion. On slitting open the 
bronchial tubes and trachea as high up as the thyroid cartilage, 
nothing beyond a trifling blush on some parts of the mucous 
membrane was observable. The lungs were engorged with 
blood, but uninflamed; the pleura, pulmonary, costal, and dia¬ 
phragmatic, was free from all signs of inflammation, and the 
thoracic cavities without effusion. The whole abdominal and 
pelvic viscera were in good health, except that the mucous or 
sensible coat of the stomach was a good deal injected, from the 
exhibition of the dig-italis. 
[To be continued.] 
A CASE OF HYDROTHORAX AND HYDROPS PERI¬ 
CARDII IN A BULLOCK, WITH A PIECE OF WIRE 
ATTACHED TO THE FIRST STOMACH. 
Mr. Tait, V.S., Portsoy, N. jB. 
Three months ago a stot, three years old, the property of 
Mr. Ogilvie, Tillynaught, became unwell. He bled him, and 
gave one lb. of Epsom salts, as his bowels were constipated, 
but which had little or no effiict. He then repeated the dose, 
which operated, and the stot seemed to be better, as he com¬ 
menced eating again, but not so frank as he should have done. 
He continued in this state for a month, when the owner ob¬ 
served an oedematous swelling between his fore legs. I was 
called to see him, and found an extensive tumour reaching 
from the dewlap to the ensiform cartilage. I ordered the 
swelling to be fomented with warm w'ater, and 1 punctured it 
with a lancet in a great many places, after which an immense 
quantity of wateiy fluid dropped out. 
The oedema was a good deal reduced by these means. I 
ordered him ^ oz. of nitre every alternate day for a week, and 
