A CASE OF OPEN URACHUS. 
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Post-mortem Examination .—On opening the thorax, the lungs 
appeared sound ; a portion of the csecum protruded through a 
rupture of the diaphragm, and which part of the csecum was 
likewise ruptured at its pocket-like part or extremity, which lay 
through the diaphragm in the thorax, and some of its contents had 
escaped through the aperture or rupture of the caecum into the tho¬ 
rax. The rupture in the diaphragm was near its inferior part, about 
five inches from its attachment to the centre of the sternum ; the 
orifice was two and a half inches in diameter, with its edges 
sloughed off quite smooth and circular: the liver was in a state 
of gangrene; both the large and small intestines were in a very 
high state of inflammation ; the stomach also, particularly its 
cuticular portion, being in colour nearly black; the neck of the 
bladder, and the whole length of the urethra, bladder and all, was 
in a state of gangrene ; several small calculi were found at the 
neck of the bladder, which did not contain more than half a pint 
of urine. Notwithstanding all these appearances of diseased 
viscera, the horse continued to eat during the intervals of cessa¬ 
tion from pain, which lasted about ten minutes at each time, fol¬ 
lowed by extreme agony, which lasted half an hour, or more some¬ 
times. 
Perhaps you, Messrs. Editors, or some of your experienced 
readers, will favour me with some remarks on the nosological, pa¬ 
thological, and physiological considerations, through the me¬ 
dium of that am plificator of our profession. The Veterinarian. 
Though this, or my other communications, may not be either 
new or extraordinary with you or other practitioners, yet I hope 
you will consider them as an earnest of good will, wishes, and 
intentions for you and The Veterinarian. 
P. S.—In my communication on the Epidemic Catarrhal 
Fever of last winter, inserted in the Number for April, at p. 193, 
for eight oz. of blood,'*’ read eight lbs. of blood.” 
MISCELLANEOUS CASES. 
OPEN URACHUS—INFLAMMATION OF THE UTERUS- 
RED WATER. 
By Mr, E. Barker, UiS., Stokesly, Yorkshire. 
On June the 20thy 1831, I was called to see a foal that had 
passed its urine the right way during the first eight or ten days 
after being dropped : the water then began to escape from the 
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