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50 per minute; ribs prominent, and intercostal muscles drawn in 
or atrophied ; respiration frequent. Auscultation showed harsh 
sound at bases of the lungs. Temperature 100° F. Deceived a 
tonic ball 13th. Pulse 56, weak—cough slight; temperature int. 
102° F. Tonic dose 14th. Eats less, no lesions detectible on 
examination of the mouth—temperature 100-8° F. Tonic 15th. 
Almost constantly lies down; very depressed ; eats very little 
food; pulse very weak and frequent; a stimulent given. Early 
in the morning of the 16th was found scarcely able to rise. Died 
at 8:30 a. m. Autopsy, about two hours after death, showed the 
liver twenty-two pounds in weight, studded throughout with 
grithy particles varying in size from a pin’s point to a small pea, 
here and there a small amount of lymph of a bright green mottled 
color on the surface-section. Omentum enormously congested. 
Stomach much congested throughout its villous portion and hav¬ 
ing the remains of one parasite cyst. Gastro-splenic omentum 
a perfect mass of small abscesses; spleen nineteen and one-half 
pounds in weight, perfectly full of abscesses except at its base, 
edges and apex. Heart, weight seventy-three pounds, its substance 
very fatty, an extensive collection of rather solid looking gelatin¬ 
ous lymph and blood in the furrows. Considerable extravasation 
beneath the endocardium of the left side and very slightly of 
the right. Lungs congested throughout the posterior two-thirds. 
Emphysema at the margin of the left lung. Here and there a 
considerable deposit of lymph in the substance of the pleuro-pul- 
monalis, a few round gretty particles in the lung suhstance like 
those found in the liver. • There was a considerable amount of 
yellow fluid in the cavity of the belly and a great deal of recent 
lymph on those parts of the bowels which lie against the spleen. 
—(Ibid.) 
CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE. 
By Sorabji K. Nariman, B.Sc., L.M. and S. 
The patient, a bay entire ghari horse, was admitted into hos¬ 
pital on the 3d of July, 1886, with oedema of all four legs and 
tenderness of the frogs. Yisible mucous membranes congested 
