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few very small white tumors scattered about on the peritoneum. 
On opening the chest found it and also the heart sac partly filled 
with bloody serum. The lower half of the lungs were entirely 
composed of tumors and cysts, one of which I also sent you (that 
was a medium sized one, some being three or four times as large, 
others smaller). Some of these were filled with straw-colored 
serum and jelly-like substance of same color; others with bloody 
serum and sac lined with coagulated blood. Some were solid, 
but easily broken down and of brownish color, the whole mass 
weighing 56 pounds. There were also in this cavity small tumors, 
on pleura costalis and diaphragm. All of the tumors situated on 
a serous membrane were white internally and externally and solid. 
There was a small quantity of pus in pelvis of right kidney. 
The tumors on under surface of the tail before death (or some of 
them) felt as though filled with pus, but on opening one of them 
but a small quantity would exude. As I wrote you on my postal 
card, the mare was a dark bay, with black points ; thirteen years 
old and about 15 hands high. Having a long distance to go to 
see another patient, I did not stop to examine any other parts. 
[The tumors are now under preparation for microscopical ex¬ 
amination—their nature will be made known as soon as we have 
received it.— Edit.] 
UNUSUALLY HIGH TEMPERATURE IN A CASE OF PNEUMONIA. 
By Wm. R. Howe, V.S. 
Pneumonia, or inflammation of the lungs, is a febrile condi¬ 
tion from which no animal is exempt. Although any disease af¬ 
fecting such important organs as the lungs is dangerous, I do not 
think it is often necessarily fatal, if attended to with proper care 
and treatment. 
Williams says that in pneumonia the temperature may rise to 
103°, 105°, or even to 106°. In my own experience, until the pres¬ 
ent case, the greatest rise of temperature in the disease has been 
to 105£°, 106° being the highest record that I can find in simple 
pneumonia. I thought this case might be of interest to the read¬ 
ers of the Review. 
