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ance of blood in it; it is of a dirty muddy drab colour, but 
nothing like so thick as it was yesterday. Is purging well; 
pulse more distinct; and her appearance better altogether. 
She drank plenty of water last night, and eats now some 
hay. To be left alone. 
From the last date to the time of her death (the 9 th ),1 never 
heard of her, and 1 concluded she was going on well. I have 
been since told that her urine, most of the time, had become 
the same as usual, and that she had fed better, and was 
thought to be getting well; though, for the last two or three 
days, she had not been quite so well. As I before stated, she 
was broken-winded, and all along her respiration continued 
too quick and laboured. But all this was attributed to her 
being broken-winded; and no notice was taken of her lungs, 
though her breathing became worse a few days before she 
died. 
Post-mortem examination .—On the 10^, 9 a.m., I examined 
her. The left kidney weighed 4|lbs., and was double its na¬ 
tural size. When dead she lay upon her left side, and this 
side of the kidney was of a blue-black hue, which extended a 
little way into its cortical substance. After removing the 
capsule, the kidney appeared mottled, drab and brown, and 
streaked with inflammation, and of a sickly, unhealthy colour. 
The interior of the cortical substance was, I fancy, a little 
softer than usual. The medullary part seemed tolerably 
sound. The pelvis and tubes leading into it contained a little 
mucus; and on pressing the kidney, a drab-coloured se¬ 
cretion was forced into the pelvis. Both the cortical and 
medullary substance had a fibrous appearance. The right 
kidney , I should think, was in a like state, and weighed 61bs. 
There was but little blood in the body, as if drained by the 
discharge from the kidneys. The liver was not diseased to any 
noticeable degree, though it was a little discoloured: but 
that might have proceeded from being dead twenty-four 
hours. The adipose matter throughout the body was of a yel¬ 
lowish bilious colour. The lungs were much diseased, being- 
very much hepatised in places, like pleuro-pneumonia in 
cattle; and in other places, in a state of suppuration. 
FISTULOUS PAROTID DUCT IN A YEARLING COLT. 
By the Same. 
On the 27th of April, 1852, I was called in to attend a 
very excellent grey yearling colt, the property of Mr. Jones, 
