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Under the circumstances, I advised the owner to destroy 
her, which was done, and the following were the post-mortem 
appearances. Both flexor brachii were much enlarged, and 
in their structure were several sacs, whose walls were hard 
and fibrinous, containing a yellow tuberculous deposit, some¬ 
thing analogous to the deposits found in the lungs of cattle 
in tubercular phthisis. The articulation of either humerus 
with the flexor brachii were diseased; the cartilage being 
removed, in some places, from the left, by attrition consequent 
upon the non-secretion of synovia. The cartilage of the 
right was not removed, but there was ulceration of the bone 
beneath, and a large quantity of ossific matter thrown out 
around the head. There w T as also an encysted abscess on the 
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poll, of the same nature as those described in the flexor 
brachii, with ossific matter on the surface of the atlas. She 
was likewise the subject of splents, and ossification of the 
lateral cartilages. I may, moreover, mention that, on laying 
open the double colon at its second turn, near to the attached 
border, I discovered a cluster of ulcerated spots, radiating 
from which the intestine was drawn up in puckers; and 
near to each spot, and adhering to it, were a large number 
of strongyles. These may probably have given rise, in the 
first place, to the ulceration. The animal, however, did not 
evince any symptoms indicative of such a state of intestine 
during life. 
This case shows that not only must there have been here¬ 
ditary tendency to ossific deposit, but also to deposits of a 
strumous nature, requiring only slight exciting causes to 
favour their development. 
Case 2.—A roan gelding, fourteen years old, the property 
of the same farmer as the first case, a few days prior to the 
8th of May, 1863, evinced the following symptoms:—Great 
debility; pulse quick, and weak; a copious discharge of 
fetid, watery pus, from both nostrils; appetite slightly im¬ 
paired; serous infiltration into the cellular tissue of the 
upper lip, obstructing the passage of the air, and causing, 
consequently, difficult and stertorous breathing. He had 
been ailing for some time, and for some years had shown 
an inability to void his urine at times. He had also been 
the frequent subject of inflammatory oedema. On the morn¬ 
ing of the 8th he died in great agony; great rigidity of the 
muscles of the neck bein£ present for some little time pre¬ 
vious to dissolution. 
Post-mortem appearances .—Chronic disease of the lungs, 
there being numerous abscesses (varying in size from a large 
