44 DISEASE AMONG THE MID-LOTHIAN FOXHOUNDS. 
food during the hunting season. When not hunting the porridge is 
thinner, and more milk is given. There were twenty-eight couple out. 
It was a long day for an opening day, and the weather was intensely hot. 
The dogs’ ages were from seven to one year old. The ages of the hounds 
that died were— 
Dog. Years old. 
1 7 
2 6 
1 5 
2 4 
6 3 
4 2 
3 1 
Number of dogs that died . 19 
Six dogs and thirteen bitches died. The first death was on Monday 
afternoon. By Wednesday morning there were five or six couple dead. 
The rest lingered on for ten days longer, the last case occurring on the 
fifteenth day. The one-year-old hounds lasted the longest, and at first 
did not appear to be very seriously ill. The hounds have twice been 
taken with similar symptoms in each case after hunting in the same 
covert, alvjays early in the season, never as the season went on, but never 
so badly as in the present outbreak. On one occasion Mr. Fletcher lost 
three hounds out of ten couple affected. Last year several hounds were 
ill after hunting there, but none died. When hunting, the porridge is 
thicker than it is when the hounds are oflf work. All the hounds are now 
in good work again; they were out in three weeks’ time after being 
seized. I hope these answers will be useful to you. Should you require 
further information on any point, I shall be happy to supply it. 
Yours faithfully, 
To Professor Dick, Alex. Kixloch. 
Veterinary College, Clyde Street, Edinburgh. 
The following report comprises the morbid appearances 
and chemical analysis: 
{ Cop ^.) Chemical Laboratory, 8, Infirmary Street, 
Edinburgh; Oci. \5th, 1862. 
Dear Sir,—I have now to report that on the 27th ult. (September) I 
received from your hands a covered jar containing the following organs 
of a dog;—the stomach, intestines, spleen, liver, and two kidneys, and 
also at the same time a quart bottle of water. 
After I had removed the above to my laboratory I proceeded to 
examine the viscera, and have to record the following appearances:—I. 
The stomach was much inflated, its contents, besides the distending air, 
being about a dessert-spoonful of grayish, gruel-like fluid. The outside 
coat of the stomach had a greenish colour and partially decomposed 
aspect; the mucous surface was generally dark green, with here and 
there dark-red patches and streaks, especially towards the pyloric end. 
The veins of the stomach were much distended. 
II. The intestine was much injected on its serous surface ; the vascular 
state of the mucous surface also betokened inflammation. About two feet 
below the pylorus there occurred on the intestine a most important lesion 
in the shape of an intussusception, the invaginated portion of bowel 
