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box; he at once lay down, using great care in doing so, then 
looked anxiously at his side as in colic and rolled over on his 
back, which position seemed to give him ease. I revisited the 
case in about four hours and gave opiates, but death ended his 
sufferings in about nine hours after I was first called; going off 
as if he had fallen asleep looking at his side. I ordered the 
removal to the offal dock as soon as possible, so as to have a 
post-mortem soon, as gas began to accumulate very rapidly. 
As a prelude to the post-mortem, I would say that as soon as 
the skinner began to remove the skin he remarked, “ Doctor, you 
have a rupture here,” and further, on removing the abdominal 
walls, inserted his hand and pulled it out full of a dark substance 
(not simply coagulated blood). The intestines were carefully 
removed, but no rupture found; there were some anti-mortem 
congestion, but most of the congestive lesions I concluded post¬ 
mortem. On making a longitudinal section of the intestines, 
they were found to contain very dry feeds, the inner surface of 
the intestines were highly fluted with gas between the outer and 
inner surface, which could easily be reduced by pressure. The 
spleen and kidneys seemed to be all right, but on examination of 
the liver, it was found to be ruptured, and the whole of its sub¬ 
stance found to be of the consistency of very soft mud, being 
rather grayish in color; it could be easily taken up in the hand 
and squeezed through the lingers, resembling what was first dis¬ 
covered by the skinner on opening the abdominal walls. I made 
known the result of the post-mortem, and gave it as my opinion 
that the horse had suffered with a disorganized liver, and that his 
periodical lameness was due to that fact. 
FISTULA OF STENON’S DUCT. 
By J. S. Butler, V.S. 
On the 18th of November last, as I was passing the farm of 
Jacob Yenney, Esq., near this city, my advice was asked concern¬ 
ing a two-year-old colt, which he said had distemper and a run¬ 
ning sore on the jaw. I went in and found the colt to be suffer¬ 
ing from strangles and a fistula of S tenon’s duct. 
