DISEASED COATS OF THE STOMACH. 85 
Mr. Bird, I was requested to look at this colt, as it was 
thought he had worms. 
On examination, I could not detect any special disease, 
but I observed his gums were flabby and swollen. I 
slightly scarified these, and ordered some nitrated water to 
be given, and for him to be well nursed and have soft food. 
For the last few days of his life he was fed on scalded 
barley, and bran with hay. Some “cattle food j; also, which 
was warranted by the vendor to be eaten with avidity, and 
to fatten all kinds of farm stock, was mixed with his pro¬ 
vendor, but when this was done he abstained from food 
altogether. 
Yesterday afternoon I was hastily summoned to attend him, 
as he was very ill. On arrival, I found him suffering appa¬ 
rently from enteritis, and I adopted the same treatment as I 
usually do in such cases, and promised to visit him again in 
the evening. About 9 p.m., I saw him again, and found him 
in a violent perspiration, and in great pain. To allay this I 
administered a sedative draught, and also applied a sinapism 
to the abdomen. A short time only elapsed, and during 
which he suffered excruciating agony, before he began to sit on 
his haunches like a dog; on seeing this, I considered the 
case entirely hopeless. I again left him, and on going early 
this morning, I found he had died during the night, and from 
the disturbed state of the straw he appeared to have struggled 
very much. 
Autojosia cadaveris .—On cutting through the abdominal 
muscles, a hard mass presented itself, which, at first I con¬ 
sidered to be a tumour, and probably of a cancerous nature. 
On further inspection, however, I found it to be the stomach 
with its coats enormously thickened. In places it was more 
than three inches in thickness, and when removed (without 
its contents just as I have sent it) weighed no less than thirty 
pounds. 
The intestines were of a deep red colour, due to the in¬ 
flammatory action; the liver was healthy; the heart much 
enlarged, and the lungs gorged with blood. 
I should be obliged by your opinion of the case. 
[The tumour, so to call it, was ovoid in form, and about 
fifteen inches in its long, by eight in its short diameter. It 
was also about four inches in thickness. 
It consisted in chief of a large mass of fibrinous material, 
which had been deposited on the external surface of the 
stomach and duodenum. A small portion only of the 
stomach—the pyloric extremity—and of the duodenum were 
