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and no sooner was she despatched than, without my knowledge, she 
was sent to the kennel. Fortunately, however. I got scent of the 
transaction, and forthwith set cn to the kennel to gain what parti¬ 
culars I could. 
‘ On reflecting the sternum, disea.se shewed itself in its worst 
features. The bone itself was literally a mass of disease. It w^s 
black, carious, and softer than natural The pleura eostalis and 
parts adjacent to the bone were numerously beset with black 
tumours of a small description. The lungs were thickly studded 
with small black tumours, melanotic in character, and when cut 
into exuded a pulpy substance looking like a mixture of paste 
and soon The liver was enlarged, and contained numbers of the 
same description of tumour, varying in magnitude front that of a 
pea to that of an egg. The substance of the sp'een, when cut 
into, poured forth a thick, black, gramous fluid. A few solitary 
(black 1) patches and tumours were observe t upon the tnesenteri: 
and peritoneal membranes. 
“ On removing the contents of the abdomen, the disease was 
discovered to have ntaie the most awful bureaus upon the spinal 
column you can possibly imagine. Commeneir :z with the tumour 
described in my former letter, extending: from the root of the tail 
to the loins, I dissected out a mass of diseased substance several 
pounds in weight, solid, black, and shiny. I then proceeded to 
clear away ail such parts as obstructed my view of the spinal 
column, when I found sacral, lumbar dorsal and cervical vertebra? 
all presenting the same aspect of disease as I Lave described the 
sternum to exhibit. Underneath and in contact with the lumbar 
vertebrae, was a tumour of the breadth of a person's hand which, 
like the other diseased parts proved in substance black and pulpy. 
For the space of sixer eight inches the lumbar vertebrae had every 
appearance of caries. The ribs, likewise, bad partaken of the 
disease, both true and false, even from their connexions with the 
spine down to their very terminations. The mammillary glands 
were similarly affected. 
“ In every morbid part, whether tubercles were numerous o: b ut 
thinly scattered through its substance, or whether there existed 
small or large masses of diseased change, there was an evident dis¬ 
position exhibited in them to the formation of cysts and encysted 
tumours. 
