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could be felt; the respiration was very hurried and deep, 
and clammy sweats covered the body. My prognosis was 
unfavorable, and he died in excruciating agony at 3 p.m. 
Post-mortem examination , September 5th.—The ends of 
the spermatic cord were strangulated, gorged with black 
blood, and much enlarged; abdominal cavity filled with 
serum ; omentum and spleen diseased, also the mesentery; 
effusion of yellow serum into the latter; large lumps of 
black coagulated blood, contained in cysts, resembling dis¬ 
eased mesenteric glands, pervaded the whole of the mesen¬ 
tery ; the membrane of the convoluted portion of the 
rectum, that is, its superior part, was filled with black blood, 
resembling continuous cysts; for two feet in length it formed 
an abnormal irregular mass, as large as a fork-handle; the 
lymphatic glands of this part of the bowels, as well as the 
mesentery, were enlarged and filled with black blood ; the 
coats of the bowels were thickened and diseased, particu¬ 
larly at the middle part of the affected portion. 
The cavity of the thorax was filled with effused serum 
and clots of coagulated lymph ; the pleura was diseased; the 
pericardium was distended with serum, the right side of the 
heart being very thin and flabby, and its investing membrane 
discoloured; the auricular ventricular valve was thin and 
apparently stretched, and the cordea tendinea lessened in 
size; the lungs were unusually small and congested. 
The singularity of this case is that the animal appeared 
to be in perfect health until the day he died. He had been 
turned out with other horses, and when they were fetched 
in in the morning he was found standing by himself in a 
dull state and the scrotum enlarged. In all probability, it 
was the immense weight of the water pressing on the sper¬ 
matic cord that caused the strangulation, followed by effu¬ 
sion into the scrotum and sheath. 
INFLAMMATION AND OBSTRUCTION OF THE 
STOMACH AND INTESTINES. 
By the Same. 
May 30th, 1863.—I was called up at 5 a.m. to attend an 
aged bay mare, belonging to Mr. Rogers, of this town. 
When I saw her she was rolling about continually, and then 
lying on her back. She had evidently been in great pain 
for several hours, as the mortar on the walls was kicked off, 
