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desired the owner to continue the fomentation and puncture the 
swelling every morning. 
Two weeks elapsed, and no abatement of the swelling having 
taken place, the owner wished me to see him again. The 
sw^elling wa^ much in the same state, and I inserted four setons, 
two between his fore legs, and two in the dewlap, but they had 
no good effect. 
The owner w ishing him to be killed, I proposed that he should 
send him to my stables, which he did. The animal being very 
weak after his arrival, I had him fed wdth bran mashes, and hay, 
and turnips, and kept him fora fortnight; when, seeing no hopes 
of his recovery, as he was daily getting w^eaker, I had him de¬ 
stroyed. 
On inspecting the abdomen, I found all the organs in a healthy 
state, with the exception of the first stomach ; on the outside 
of which, close by the cardiac orifice, I observed a small tumour, 
and having opened it, I found that it contained a little matter, 
and a piece of twisted wire four inches in length. On open¬ 
ing the sternum, I found the pericardium enormously distended, 
and the chest contained upwards of two gallons of discoloured 
fluid. On cutting open the pericardium, its parietes were nearly 
half an inch thick, and much altered in structure, and contained 
about Ig Scotch pint (3 quarts) of a cream-coloured matter. 
Two questions naturally arise from the above : first. By what 
means was the wdre conveyed where it w^as found ? And, 2dly, 
What occasioned the thickening of the pericardium, and the de¬ 
posit of fluid in it, as there w^as nothing in the chest to which 
its formation could be attributed ? 
ON THE POWER OF THE SPARTIUM SCOPARIUM 
IN ANASARCA, AND ON THE MEDICAL EFFECT 
OF CAMPHOR. 
By M?\ J. D. Harrison, U.5., Lancaster, 
Since my last communication I have met wdth only tw^o cases 
of anasarca, which I herewith send; and should you deem them 
w'orthy of insertion in The Veterinarian, I think it would 
act as a more powerful incentive to my brother veterinarians 
giving the spartium scoparium a fair trial, than any language I 
could or should feel disposed to use, in recommending it to their 
notice. 
Before I proceed to the relation of the cases, I feel bound to 
digress from my subject, and refer you to the last number of 
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