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L. C. MEYER, JR. 
the conditions of asthenia, apathy, and marasmus. She abstained 
fiom food almost absolutely. She would lie down on either side 
and groan, and at times, it cost her strenuous efforts to rise. Her 
pulse numbered 72 per minute, and weak. Her respiration was 
exceedingly quiet, while standing. Her temperature, 103. All 
visible mucous membranes looked pale and anaemic. Her extrem¬ 
ities were cold, and not swollen. The small quantity of foeces 
she passed was of a mushy consistency. Her urine was scanty, 
and of a light specific gravity. These progressive grave symp¬ 
toms induced me to make a fatal prognosis, whatever organic dis¬ 
ease might prevail, and I ordered her destroyed. Her owner, how¬ 
ever objected, as long as she was not entirely prostrate. This 
state was soon at hand. 
On the morning of the 15th of December, I received a tele¬ 
phonic message from the farm that she was down and unable to 
rise. Being anxious to make a post mortem examination, I noti¬ 
fied her owner (who lives in the city), as to her condition*, and ob¬ 
tained his consent to destroy her. Arriving at the farm, I found 
hei lying on her left side, struggling and groaning considerably, 
in an utterly helpless condition. I destroyed her at once, and 
pioceeded with a post mortem examination, which revealed the 
following pathological lesions : Division of the abdominal walls 
along the linca alba, from behind forwards, gave vent to a copious 
flow of pus from the epigastric region. This pus was almost 
subcutaneous, and resembled that of the former abscess in the 
parotid . region in every respect—thick, white, inodorous matter, 
further examination disclosed the existence of firm adhesions of 
a poition of the small intestines and the diaphragmatic curva- 
ture of the colon to the walls of an abscess that connected the 
li\ei with the abdominal parietes. This abscess extended clear 
into the right lobe of the liver, a distance of 4 to 6 inches. It 
was divided into two separate apartments by a partition leading 
from the abdominal walls. The cavity within the hepatic tissue 
was arranged in a series of irregular, open receptacles, filled 
with pus. The inferior half of the right lobe of the liver was 
elongated and considerably firmer than natural. Through it 
traversed numerous small canals filled with pus. The remaining 
