DOUBLE METASTASIS. 
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becoming amaurotic; before night they were perfectly so. I then 
bled again with the almost hopeless notions of relieving this state 
of brain. No relief was obtained from the bleeding ; the animal 
was perfectly blind, and now shewed no pain whatever in the feet, 
putting them down as if nothing was the matter. The blood exhi¬ 
bited exactly the same peculiar character as before. The animal 
continued in this state all night. 
29th. No change. Case hopeless. The patient evinces no 
pain in the feet; yet is rapidly sinking. He fell at 3 P.M., and 
while lying he appeared to gradually lose the use of his limbs, 
dying at 8 P.M. without a struggle. 
Post-mortem Appearances. 
The Intestines pale internally ; and although not shewing inflam¬ 
mation internally, yet the mucous membranes exhibited a dirty 
brown tinge throughout the larger portion of them, particularly the 
ccecum and large intestines. The liver was firm, but paler than 
natural. The stomach shewed no sign of inflammation. 
The Lungs were much inflamed or rather congested : the right 
lobe contained in its centre three large ulcerated abscesses, contain¬ 
ing a thick matter of a dirty brown colour, extremely offensive; 
evidently the effect of a previous attack of inflammation in that 
lobe. 
Within the Cranium the bloodvessels pervading the membranes 
were much distended, and those of the brain were conspicuously 
gorged with very dark blood. A large quantity of serum had 
accumulated, and made its escape during the severing of the head 
from the body; it had forced its way between the two hemi¬ 
spheres, and had accumulated at the base of the brain, around the 
medulla spinalis, and, when the head was raised, a considerable 
quantity of serum escaped. 
The Substance of the Brain proved unsound ; the lateral ven¬ 
tricles seemed to contain an unusual quantity of fluid, and the 
plexus choroides were loaded with dark blood. 
On examining the Feet , I was certainly surprised at the very 
rapid disorganization that had taken place: all the intervening 
substance connecting the fibro-periosteum with the laminse had 
been destroyed, and its place become filled with the partly decom¬ 
posed periosteum, and blood, which had been thrown out from the 
small vessels of the periosteal covering. All union between the 
periosteum and laminee had disappeared, and an open space lay 
exposed to view of nearly a quarter of an inch, owing to their 
destruction. 
Remarks. —The blood drawn from this animal was kept many 
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