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GENERAL VISCERAL DISEASE. 
1 commenced to treat the animal; although, I must confess, 
without hope of any satisfactory result. Therefore, I will 
not occupy the space of your valuable periodical with relating 
the treatment, &c., but leave that for more able hands than 
mine. Suffice it to say, from the treatment she received, for 
a day or two she seemed to rally, and we were not without 
hopes; but the medicine, from the owner’s neglect, was dis¬ 
continued. Again, on the fourth day, she showed symptoms 
of more active disease; was taken with shivering; refused 
all food (except a little gruel, of which she partook very spar¬ 
ingly) ; ears and legs cold; quick but weak pulse; respi¬ 
rations quickened; evacuations from the bowels entirely 
suspended, and moaning as if in great pain. Ascultation 
gave proof of diseased lungs, and I had reason to fear the 
heart was implicated in the disease. Therefore, she was 
treated accordingly, but without avail; for on the evening of 
the third day after this second attack, she died, apparently 
under the most acute sufferings. 
Next morning, I attended to make a post-mortem examina¬ 
tion, and try to increase my little store of knowledge; on which 
occasion it was shown, as you will perceive from these cursory 
remarks, that my prognosis carried with it a portion of truth. 
But yet, appearances are often deceitful, and we should not 
decide in haste; for u all professions,” it is said, “ have their 
mysteries.” 
After the skin was removed, there was the most intense in¬ 
flammatory action seen to have taken place on the left side of 
the body, behind the shoulder; while all the other outward 
parts of the carcass appeared to be in a normal state. Upon 
laying open the thorax, extensive disease was brought into 
view; the lungs being in a high state of inflammation and 
congestion, and the pericardium, and also the heart itself, being 
highly inflamed ; as was also the pleuro-costalis, most part of 
which was coated with lymph. Carrying my examination 
further, my attention was next drawn to what appeared to be 
a cyst or bladder attached anteriorly and superiorly to the 
rumen, containing at least half a gallon of thin, transparent, 
glutinous fluid, which had no perceptible smell. 
But most of all the liver, from its immense size and dis¬ 
eased structure, surprised me, and, I think, gave ocular proof 
of having been diseased a long time prior to this examination ; 
for, when drawn forth, it appeared to be of three times the 
size of one in a normal state, containing, in its substance, an 
immense number of what I called calcareous deposits, of the 
size of a horse-chesnut, which, when crumbled betwixt the 
finger and thumb, gave a feeling of sand or grit. There 
