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inches in its thickest part and 3 in its thinnest. On section the 
splenic tissue seemed everywhere destroyed, and in its place were 
melanotic deposits; its structure was firm, but at the same time 
readily cut. 
The lungs were slate colored, and the heart, together with its 
large vessels, had melanoid infiltration. The stomach was very 
small, being pressed upon by the large spleen. 
The coats of the large abdominal vessels showed deposits 
throughout. The liver, pancreas, kidneys, and mesenteric glands 
were involved and softened. 
A peculiarity of this case was that the animal was reported 
blind for some time previous, and on post mortem examination 
small granular deposits were found over the choroid coat and over 
the place where the optic nerve enters the globe. 
PIERCED EYE. 
By J. P. Klencii, V.S. 
A short time ago I happened to see in an old number of the 
New York Spirit of the Times of 1878 an item reading thus: 
“H. E , Mount Pleasant.—We are afraid that the membrane 
containing the vitreous humor, or corpus vitreum, has been burst, 
and the escape of the fluid causes the collapse of the tissue, which 
accounts for the injured organ becoming smaller than its fellow 
on the opposite side. This substance (the vitreous humor) is a 
transparent, gelatinous substance, which fills the back part of the 
eye, behind the crystalline lens, or probably the aqueous humor, 
which is a colorless fluid, situated in the anterior and posterior 
chambers of the. eye, has been permitted to escape ; in either case 
a cure would be impossible. We are almost satisfied either one 
or both of those fluids have escaped.' 1 
At the same time that this item came under my observation, 
I had under treatment a case exactly similar to the one above 
mentioned. It was that of a horse that got, as the proprietor 
termed it, a sore eye over night, he did not know how. On ex¬ 
amination I found the eyelids firmly closed, the eyeball fallen in, 
