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This distension was especially well marked at the apex, wher 
it was full to bursting. It was here that the gastro-spleni 
omentum was dark red in color and intensely injected. 0 
opening the posterior aorta the coeliac axis contained a quar 
tity of clotted blood, and in one of the branches the intim 
was thickened and roughened in places, and adhering to air 
partially concealed by the roughened intima, there were sev 
eral nematodes. The anterior and posterior mesenteric artei 
ies were normal. 
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13. On August 12th I was sent for to see a mare which 
found suffering a good deal of pain, and presenting all the symj; 
toms of acute lymphangitis. Temperature, ioi-§-° ; pulse har 
and full, and about 60. Gave linseed oil, with belladonse an 
veratrum viride, and ordered continuous bathing with he 
vinegar and water, and soap and camphor liniment. 
The next day I got word that she was better; was eatinJ 
better and seemed brighter, and the swelling was much re 
duced. 
The same evening I got word to come out at once, as th 
mare was down, unable to get up, and was thrashing badly 
I found her lying on her sore leg, trying to get up, and be 
coming almost frantic in her endeavors. I at once turnee 
her over on the other side, when she got up with a little dii 
ficulty and at once began eating hay, and whinnied whet 
water was brought. 
The following morning, much to my surprise, I receivee 
word that she was dead, and 1 immediately went out to mak< 
an autopsy. 
Autopsy. I found body tympanitic, swelling in leg mucl 
reduced. Owner said she died easily, without struggling 
so much so, that, although he was in the same barn, he die 
not know she was dead till he went in to look at her. Oi 
opening the abdominal cavity, there were no lesions to b< 
observed in the abdominal viscera, except one small patch 0 
redness, with a few haemorrhagic spots at the pelvic flexun 
of the colon. Thorax: the lungs were dark-colored and con 
gested ; the heart full on both sides. In the anterior mesen 
teric artery there were two aneurismal dilations, and in then 
