LARGE HEM ATOM ATOGS GROWTHS. 
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From November the first to the fourth, the anorexia was 
complete, the animal had great desire for liquids, the abdomen 
has gradually continued to increase in size, the sheath and the 
lower wall of the abdomen had become the seat of large swellings 
pitting on pressure, the pulse had increased to eighty and ninety, 
respiration to thirty, the temperature to 106£, the purgative had 
acted freely. On the morning of the fourth, at ten minutes 
before eight o’clock, he was seen moving in his stall, picking at a 
little hay; belay down, and by eight o’clock was found dead, 
death having taken place without a struggle, his bedding being 
in the same condition as the stableman had made it a few minutes 
before. 
On post mortem the following lesions were found : An in¬ 
cision was made on the median line, extending from the pec¬ 
toral back to the inguinal region, and the skin dissected on 
each side ; the left fore leg separated from the trunk so as to 
expose the side of the thoracic cavity. As this was done the 
swelling of the sub cutanous cellular tissue of the abdomen 
allowed the escape of a large amount of yellowish serosity. The 
muscles of the pectoral region, as well as all those which had 
been exposed, were of a very pale color, manifest character of 
the anhemic condition of the animal. The thoracic cavity being 
open, the lungs were taken out with the heart. The pulmonary 
organs, which had been much compressed by the displacement of 
the diaphragm, which extended forward as far as the fifth rib, 
were, generally speaking, healthy, with the exception of a very 
small piece of the lower border of the left lung, which showed 
some grey and red hepatization on a surface about six inches 
square. The pulmonary veins of both lungs of all sizes were 
filled with clots of blood of various stages, showing that embol¬ 
isms of the vessels had gradually taken place by ante mortem clots. 
The general appearance of the heart was healthy, the valves 
of both ventricles were normal, but both cavities of the ventricles 
and auricles, principally in the right heart, were also filled with 
ante mortem clots, which extended into the cavity of the large 
blood vessels of these cavities. The pericardium contained but 
a little quantity of fluid. 
