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cupied during the day, and she being at the farm buildings, a 
mile distant, she was not seen until eight o’clock at night, when 
my partner, Mr. Walker, found her standing in the box, sweat¬ 
ing profusely. It was with great difficulty she was made to 
move the hind extremities at all, and when doing so she seemed 
to be excessively lame of the hind leg; pulse 90, breathing 
very much excited. The injury evidently being situated 
high up, the impression formed at the time was, that some 
fracture of the pelvis had taken place. Warm fomentations 
were employed, and a dose of sedative medicine administered. 
The attendant left her about twelve o’clock the same night, 
and the following morning he found her dead. I made a care¬ 
ful post-mortem examination the same day; and upon re¬ 
moving the skin, I first sought for some external bruise to 
point out the part supposed to be injured, but found none. 
I then opened the abdomen, and removed the stomach, in¬ 
testines, &c., and found them healthy, the mysentery being 
about three inches thick of fat; when I discovered the kidneys 
to be the organs affected. Upon removing them, I perceived 
them both to be in a high state of inflammation, the whole 
of their structure being more or less congested with black 
blood. Of course, I made an examination of the pelvis and 
adjacent parts, but could find no signs of injury. All the 
other organs of the body were healthy. 
Unquestionably, the animal’s death was caused by inflam¬ 
mation of the kidneys; and the chief point of interest for 
consideration is the cause in operation to produce this. That 
it was from no external injury the post-mortem examination 
proved, and I can only attribute it to the following cause, viz., 
that this young animal, after being idle all the winter, and 
gained much in condition, had been kept, during the three 
weeks previous to her death, upon some slightly heated but 
in other respects very good old clover, and being allowed an 
unlimited supply, she had so completely overtaxed the diges¬ 
tive and vascular systems, that only a slight disturbing cause 
was required to bring on a violent inflammatory attack, and 
this, in all probability, was supplied by the irritative action 
of the acetate of potash, formed in the organism, upon the 
kidneys, thus determining the blood in undue quantities to 
these particular organs. 
[To he continued .) 
