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ON POUCHED HEART. 
This in the young consists in the anatomical peculiarity of 
the tube leading to the stomachs. While the animal is fed on 
milk, the fluid escapes the two first, viz., the paunch and the 
honey-comb, which are nearly closed, and arrives at the maw, 
which is attached to the third (manyplies), as yet a narrow 
tube, where only can it be acted upon by the gastric juice to 
be fitted for digestion. 
If gin-balls, rum and milk, and other fantastical compounds 
be administered (as is often done with calves), the rapid de¬ 
position of fat may be seen, as well as unusual whiteness— 
the unhealthy appearance of the meat. If the parent be fed on 
artificial food the milk is vitiated, and so the tendency to the 
disease in question is augmented at the earliest period in the 
succeeding race. Liberty may here be taken to insert a quo¬ 
tation from an able teacher on the subject of “ Hypertrophy,” 
as it appeared in a provincial periodical some months ago, and 
as it amalgamates so closely with the theory here proposed. 
“In many animals an excess of the carbonaceous elements of 
the food is attended with an accumulation of fatty matter in the 
body, but the quantity of muscular fibre, and of the other im¬ 
portant structures possessing active qualities cannot be thus 
forced much beyond their natural standard. In the greater 
number of cases an increase of diet beyond the required amount 
induces a disordered or enfeebled state of the nutritive functions 
rather than hypertrophy. It may be that a large quantity of 
the nitrogenous products are admitted into the blood, causing a 
plethora of it. When that is the case, the muscular and other 
organs are very liable to suffer in their nutrition from being 
pampered in so rich a soil, and actually evince the effect in 
becoming atrophied, and undergoing fatty degeneration; or by 
a predisposition to inflammation. It may seem strange that a 
condition resembling that produced by a deficient supply of 
food should follow the indulgence in a too liberal dietary.”— 
Humphrey s Lecture. 
These then, are the circumstances which determine the pro¬ 
duction of fat, and whilst they are present the accumulation of 
flesh does not go on, but diminishes; and this is conformable to 
what is at present known of animal physiology. Most as¬ 
suredly it is at variance with the economy of animal health to 
maintain the general frame in a growing state whilst an ab¬ 
normal quantity of fat is produced. 
The State of the Lungs where pouched Heart exists. 
The lungs are often found congested, (bat is, the blood which 
should pass through the minute endings of the pulmonary artery 
is stagnant. There is too much reserve or residual impure air: 
