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the turbinated bone and then sent to the country, to his birth¬ 
place, to complete his recovery, which was at times reported as mak¬ 
ing fast progress. 
The animal died on the 22d of September, and the post-mor¬ 
tem proved that death had taken place b}’ starvation, complicated 
by repeated secondary hemorrhage from the palatine artery of 
the right side. 
The following are the notes taken from the autopsy made 
2d hours after death : 
The animal lay in the Held where he had been turned out, 
on the left side. His body is fearfully emaciated, bones protrud¬ 
ing, muscles atrophied, nothing in fact but skin and bones is left 
of the still good looking horse seen but a few weeks before. His 
abdomen round the dank is much retracted and measured scarcely 
three feet in diameter. The skin removed exposed all the muscu¬ 
lar structure pale, flabby and free from any fat. The abdomen 
open, shows the intestines retracted to almost nothing, the 
stomach contains a bolus of green food about the size of two fists, 
the small intestine is entirely empty, contracted in almost its 
whole extent, and in places reduced to a very small size, about one 
inch in diameter, the large colon contains a certain quantity of 
food, grass seeds and earth mixed together, perhaps six pounds in 
weight, the coeeum has a little watery food in it, the small colon 
is empty, the mucous membrane of these organs is pale and shrunk 
all over. 
The spleen and kidneys are healthy, the liver also, though 
somewhat softened by the post-mortem. The lungs are generally 
healthy, a little emphysematous in the anterior lobe. The peri¬ 
cardium is filled with serosity. The heart is pale, flabby, with 
post-mortem clots in both ventricles; large blood vessels almost 
empty all through the body; ganglions of the abdomen and chest 
infiltrated. 
After severing the head from the neck at the occipito-atloid 
joint, the skin, before being removed, presented on it the marks 
of the openings where it had been trephined, neither of which 
were cicatrized. 
On removing the skin, the tumor presented the same aspect 
