SOME INTERESTING POST-MORTEMS. 
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Animal was bled, given a dose of oleum lini and left soda 
salicylate and stimulants, with another dose of oil, to be given 
in the evening. Died the next morning and made post-mor¬ 
tem in afternoon. 
Found stomach distended, with food in a semi-dry condi¬ 
tion. 
Coeliac axis was the seat of a verminous aneurism about 
the size of a man’s head, and several portions of the bowels 
were adherent to its surface, including the duodenum, which 
at point of adhesion was less than half its natural capacity. 
This seemed to me to be the cause of the stomach and brain 
symptoms, by not allowing the ingesta to pass on. The 
bowels were without inflammation throughout. 
No. 3. On the morning of May 10, 1891, I was called some 
eight miles in the country to see a sick mare, arriving about 
eight o’clock. Patient was a four-year-old gray mare, with a 
healthy foal a few weeks old by her side. 
History given was that the young horses on the place had 
all been more or less affected with strangles. About six 
weeks before time of visit, this mare was not very well, but 
neither swelled in any perceptible place nor discharged any 
pus from the nose. She had not thriven well since that time, 
although had given birth to the healthy foal in meantime. 
At two or three times she had shown slight attacks of 
colic, which soon passed off without medication. This attack 
came on about eleven o’clock in the morning the day pre¬ 
vious, and she had been very uneasy since early in the evening. 
Examination showed a scarcely perceptible pulse, temper¬ 
ature I02 q or slightly higher, anxious expression, and slight 
tremors over the body, particularly noticeable at the 
shoulders. Head occasionally extended and upper lip turned 
up. The breath was sour and foul-smelling, and very little if 
any peristaltic action could be detected. Diagnosed inflam¬ 
mation of the stomach and bowels. 
Gave sodas, stimulants and fl. ext. canibus indica, but the 
|inimal grew rapidly worse and died about twelve hours fiom 
the time this attack came on. Post-mortem made immediately 
after death. 
First found a lot of water and undigested food in the ab- 
