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A THORN FOUND IN A DOG’S SIDE. 
found her precisely the same as on my first visit. I bled her again 
to the amount of four quarts, and gave her the following in a 
drench :—Mag. sulph. §xvj, sulphur, lbss, aloes barb. zingib. 
rad. 3 iij. M. I also told them to drench her four or five times a 
day with gruel. I may also add, that in this stage of the proceed¬ 
ing I was completely non-plused, never having seen or heard of a 
similar case. 
2 5th. —Mr. Taylor came to me again, and told me, the dewlap 
was very much swollen; he struck a fleam into it, and a great 
quantity of water ran out. The last physic merely relaxed her 
bowels, as fresh grass would. She would not eat any thing. No 
treatment. 
On the 26th I went to see her. She, however, had died the 
night before. Mr. Taylor told me that she appeared to die as she 
stood, for she fell and never moved afterwards. Unfortunately, 
they had buried her before I got there, consequently I saw nothing 
but the heart, which was kept back; and this, to my surprise, was 
completely enveloped in a kind of ossific matter, more particularly 
the ventricles. Some of this ossific matter, if it can be called 
such, was about three-quarters of an inch in thickness. It had a 
rough granulated appearance, and was so brittle that I could 
crumble it to pieces between my thumb and finger. In the pa- 
rietes of the right ventricle there was found a brass pin three 
inches in length. There was about half an inch of it outside the 
pericardium, the remaining part being in the middle and anterior 
part of the parietes of the ventricle, where it had caused an ab¬ 
scess to form, about two and a half inches in length, and an inch 
wide. The interior of the heart appeared healthy. 
The pin had no head to it, and its direction in the heart was 
obliquely from above downwards and backwards towards the apex. 
The chest, they told me, was quite full of water, and from their 
description very similar to hydro-thorax in the horse. The lungs 
also appeared healthy; but there were several patches of mortifi¬ 
cation upon different parts of the thorax. There was also a dark 
spot on the inferior part of the esophagus immediately above 
the pin. 
These are all the particulars I am able to give concerning this 
remarkable case. 
Case II.—A Thorn found in a Dog’s Side. 
The animal had swallowed the prickle of a black thorn, about 
an inch and three-quarters long, in a piece of tripe. As I met with 
this case merely by chance, I am unable to give much of the par¬ 
ticulars. The dog, when I saw him, appeared to be in great pain : 
