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DISINTEGRATION OF MUSCULAR FIBRE. 
Knightswood Colliery, I found upwards of two hundred in 
that organ. I have never seen any such cases related either 
in your valuable Journal or any other veterinary works. I 
have spoken to several veterinary surgeons on the subject, 
and they all seem to say that the worms must have entered 
the stomach after death ; but 1 think not, as in that case 
of the Messrs. Wilson’s I opened the horse immediately after 
death. I likewise found them throughout the entire length 
of the small intestines. The liver was slightly congested. 
All the other internal viscera were perfectly healthy. 
Remarks .—The cause of the uneasiness at first exhibited, in 
my opinion, must have been owing to the worms shifting 
from the intestines, where they are generally found, into the 
stomach ; and from the animal tumbling about, the laceration 
of the mesentery ensued, which would allow that portion of 
the ilium which was in immediate connexion with the la¬ 
cerated mesentery to move about uncontrolled, and the con¬ 
sequence of this was the strangulation of that intestine, 
which took place when that particular symptom, namely, 
kicking with the near hind leg, presented itself. My father 
informs me that he has had three cases similar to the above, 
and in each case he observed this kicking to occur. 
I should like very much to know if any of your readers 
have noticed it as a pathognomonic symptom? Also, if lum- 
brici in the stomach is a common occurrence? 
ON THE DISINTEGRATION OF MUSCULAR FIBRE 
AS CONNECTED WITH “ MORBUS BRIGHTIIY 
By P. Smale, Y.S., Leamington. 
In disintegration of muscular fibre by oxidation through 
the means of N0 5 , I find that the first stage is a kind of 
albumen, in molecular globules, similar to that found in the 
lacteals previous to their entering the mesenteric glands, 
called by Dr. Carpenter albuminose, which by those glands 
is converted into true albumen, proving those glands to be, 
as I believe all glands devoid of ducts are, deoxidizing and 
therefore assimilating organs. This is able to permeate 
moist membranes, while albumen is not, at least from the 
external to the internal. 
I think this state of effete matter may throw some light on 
the cause of that condition of kidney known as morbus 
