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stall. Her hind legs were greatly swollen ; and, in turning 
round, her feet became entangled in the stall, and she fell 
down. Made comfortable as well as possible, she was left in 
that position with some hope that she might be improved by 
the rest. But when called upon to get up she was found to 
be utterly unable to do so, and, notwithstanding all efforts 
made to assist her, she died during the night. 
The post-mortem proved to be one of much interest. All 
the organs of the body were anasmic, and all the muscles were 
pale. The lungs and the pleural membranes were healthy ; 
the pericardial sac contained about two and one-half ounces 
of serosity; and the heart was hypertrophied; probably a 
“ compensatory hypertrophy,” the walls of the ventricles 
being very much thickened. The cavities of the heart con¬ 
tained large ante-mortem clots, as did also many arteries of 
the body, these clots varying in size in the different arteries, 
the renal being entirely clogged, and the most minute subdi¬ 
visions of the blood vessels in the substance of the kidneys 
were also entirely filled. The kidneys also presented other 
most interesting lesions, both being much enlarged, the left 
weighing fifty-seven and one quarter, and the right forty-four 
and one-half ounces. These organs also presented great abnor¬ 
mality in their dimensions, the left being nine inches in its long 
axis and seven in its width, and the right measuring eight inches 
in iength by six in width. The cellular tissue surrounding 
them was very much congested, together with the capsules of 
the organs. The left was irregularly lobulated on its great cir¬ 
cumference, and a section of the substance showed numerous 
patches of congested and inflamed tissue, including six isolated 
abscesses, containing from one-half to one drachm of pus. 
The right kidney contained no abscesses, but was much con¬ 
gested and inflamed in patches. The bladder was in a normal 
condition, and contained about one pint of urine, which was 
neutral in reaction and contained much mucus and some sugar. 
All the other organs proved healthy. Microscopic examina¬ 
tion of the tissues of the organ was not made. 
