ON THK STOMACHS OF RUMINANTS. 
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the post-mortem appearances, efficient and unerring signs are af¬ 
forded to guide us safely in our prognostications of these diseased 
states of the heart. 
I know auscultation is looked on by many practitioners, both 
in human and veterinai'y medicine, as affording little infor¬ 
mation in diseases of the chest, and I was ignorant enough of its 
importance, at one time, to be of that opinion ; but, from perse¬ 
vering in that mode of inquiry, I have now the gratification of 
being capable of detecting the nature and extent of some diseases 
in the thorax that heretofore I w^as unable to recognize. 
To return, however, to my subject: I observed that hypertro¬ 
phy of the right side of the heart was liable to be confounded 
with pneumonia, as the lungs are readily affected in this case; 
but there is this obvious difference—the breathing, although 
quickened and laborious, is less frequent than in pneumonia; 
the pulse, notwithstanding it is quick and intermittent, is not so 
much oppressed; the submaxillary artery is more dilated; the 
flow of blood through the jugular is more current; the mem¬ 
branes of the eye and nostril are less injected ; the surface of 
the body and extremities are of a moderate warmth; and these 
last symptoms are present when the respiration is exceedingly 
difficult and laborious: copious bleeding does not cause that 
change in the character of the pulse; nor afford comparative re¬ 
lief to the respiration ; both lungs are equally affected ; the re¬ 
spiratory murmur is indistinct, and marked at all points of the 
chest; and the urgent symptoms experience no remission : it is 
serous infiltration of the parenchyma of the viscus which puts all 
remedial measures at defiance. 
[To be continued.] 
ON THE STOMACHS OF RUMINANTS, 
AND PARTICULARLY ON THB QUESTION, WHETHER, AND UNDER WHAT 
CIRCUMSTANCES, FLUIDS ARE RECEIVED INTO THE RUMEN. 
H// M?\ Friend, U.iS. Walsall. 
To the Editoi's of “ The Veterinarian. 
Gentlemen, 
Will you allow a stranger to congratulate you on the in¬ 
creasing interest of the new series of your valuable publication. 
The Veterinarian. I am sorry to confess, that I have been 
a reader of that work only during the past year; but am happy 
to acknowledge, that the perusal of your monthly numbers, dur¬ 
ing that period, has afforded me both interest and information; 
and since the number for February has come to hand, I have 
been forcibly struck with the propriety of more members of the 
