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a look at him, and who pronounced him “ better than he was 
in the forenoon, as he was so much easier” This, 1 explained, 
was the result of mortification, and whilst I was speaking, the 
animal staggered forward, and died immediately. 
Diagnosis. —Ruptured stomach. 
Post-mortem examination.—A quantity of fluid ingesta was 
found in the abdomen, the viscera generally were, however, 
healthy, with the exception of the duodenum, which was 
partially strangulated by the peduncle of a fatty tumour, the 
size of one’s fist, which had become twisted around it. 
On examining the stomach, I found the outer coats to be 
ruptured throughout nearly the whole length of the great 
curvature, and in the centre of the lesion an entire rupture 
of all the coats to exist of a size just sufficient to admit my 
little finger. My conviction was, that the colt had ruptured 
the outer coats of his stomach when he went through the 
archway, and that whilst freaking and kicking about w r ith his 
companions on the evening before his death, the stomach 
being full at the time, the rupture became complete at the 
place I have named. There was a quantity of plastic mate¬ 
rial in the ruptured portion, showing that reparation had 
commenced. 
CASE OF CHOKING IN A CAT WITH A NEEDLE 
AND COTTON. 
By the Same. 
August 13th, 1859- Mr. T—, of this town, requested me 
to see a favorite cat of his, which he fancied had the in¬ 
fluenza, as his wife and daughter had been the subjects of this 
affection,and he thought it probable that the cat might likewise 
have contracted the malady. The animal had refused all food 
for two days, and could not bear to have his throat touched. 
On examination I found the throat very sore, but could 
discover no foreign agent in the oesophagus by external m.ani- 
pulation , although it was my opinion that something was 
fixed within it. I thereupon carefully explored the oesophagus 
with a pair of bow forceps, to ascertain if a fish bone or any 
similar thing had become lodged there. On withdrawing 
the forceps I saw something in their hold, which at first I 
thought w r as a filaria bronchi , but on further examination I 
found it to be a piece of sewing-cotton. Search was again 
made, and a piece more cotton detected. On again opening 
