210 V. L. JAMES. 
very offensive, and the owner supposing it to be a wart, had the 
tail amputated. Afterwards other tumors formed along the 
under surface of the tail, and one in the muscle on each side of 
the anus which, at the time of her death, had the appearance ex¬ 
ternally of mellanotic tumors. She has been used on a farm and 
kept in good condition and done her share of the work up to 
June 5th, all the owner noticing amiss being a cough and slightly 
labored breathing, he supposing her to be coming down with 
broken wind. On the 5th he drove her a short distance, single, 
when she appeared dull and wanted to stop often. On arriving 
home she was put in the barn and fed as usual, and on going 
there a short time afterward she was found down, resting her nose 
on the floor and in great distress. A neighbor chancing to be 
going by who doctors horses occasionally, he was called in and pre¬ 
scribed something to quiet her pain, and the next day (Wednesday, 
6th), I was sent for to see her. On my arrival I found her standing. 
She had not been down since the night previous. Eyes amaurot¬ 
ic ; breathing labored; pulse 90; temp. 105°; no murmur over, 
lower half of lungs, and dull sound on percussion; heart sounds 
as though beating through water; had eaten nothing since first 
taken. On the 7th I visited her again, found pulse 80; temp. 
' 104° ; on the 9th, being in the neighborhood, I called again, 
found pulse 54; temp. 102^°; seemed brighter; began to eat 
some; had slight dropsical swelling on under surface of abdomen 
and chest; this was about noon; in the evening they went to the 
barn about nine o’clock and found her down, and at ten o’clock 
same evening she died. Next morning I held post mortem , found 
the abdominal cavity filled with bloody serum. On removal of 
spleen, found it to be divided into five large tumors, round one 
way and oval the other. Noticing that they were about of a size 
I weighed one, which weighed seven pounds; there were a few 
small ones, one of which I sent you; that was the largest of the 
small ones. The whole spleen weighed 38 pounds. There was a 
rent across one of the large ones extending in to its center, and 
its surface was covered with coagulated blood. The right lobe of 
the liver was filled with these tumors, and the whole gland 
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weighed 24£ pounds. The ovaries were both affected, and a 
