DISEASED MESENTERIC VESSELS IN A FOAL. 591 
juice of a lemon, to be administered. Bandages saturated 
with Sol. Plumb. Acet. were applied to the hocks, and bran 
poultices continued to the loins. 
26 th, 10 a.m.—A slight improvement has taken place; 
the pulse is more natural, and the pain less. She is, however, 
unable to rise without assistance. Sits on her haunches and 
makes frequent attempts to get up, but soon falls down 
again. Gave carbonate of potash, and continued the linseed 
gruel, &c. 
27th.—Better this morning. Ordered for her to be well 
nursed. To have the poultice removed from her loins, and 
her hocks freed from the pressure of the bandages. 
29th. — Considerable improvement. Gets up without 
help. Takes her milk freely and with an appetite. A 
serous discharge is oozing from the skin of each hock. Re¬ 
peated the carbonate of potash. 
31st, 10 a.m.—Much to my surprise and disappointment, 
about half an hour before I arrived, and a few minutes after 
the man had given her the gruel, death suddenly took place. 
I concluded that some of the gruel had gone into the trachea 
and thus suffocated the little patient, and therefore I was 
very anxious to make a post-mortem examination without 
loss of time. On doing this I found that my supposition 
was correct, and that some of the gruel had passed down the 
trachea, but still not in a sufficient quantity to cause imme¬ 
diate death. 
On opening the abdomen, the cause of death was at 
once seen to be a ruptured blood-vessel, as there was a 
large quantity of blood in the cavity. In taking out the 
intestines, I felt a hardened mass just anterior to the kidneys, 
which proved to be an indurated tumour, involving the ante¬ 
rior mesenteric artery and its branches, and also a portion of 
the mesentery. On cutting into it, I found a number of 
strongyles, but could scarcely find any form of an artery. 
The other internal viscera were perfectly healthy, but, on 
laying open the hock-joints, a considerable quantity of fetid 
and grumous matter was given exit to. 
[The morbid parts consisted of a mass of mesenteric ves¬ 
sels and haemorrhagic tumours attached thereto, which had 
been removed from the vicinity of the aorta. The specimen 
did not come to hand in a favorable condition for us to 
ascertain whether the tumours were or were not immediately 
connected with the interior of the vessels; for although filled 
with blood they had not the usual appearance of simple aneu¬ 
rism al sacs. 
