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liver was in a condition of cloudy swelling, the cells enlarged and full of 
fine granules. The kidney presented a similar condition, the epithelial 
cells being full of fine granules—“in a word, in a condition of a paren¬ 
chymatous nephritis, with rapid degeneration.” The urine contained 
the usual constituents in this disease—a few casts, granules of albumen, 
no blood corpuscles. The musculus ilio-psoas showed, in addition to 
great oedema, the changes of the granular and hyaline degeneration ; the 
muscle fibres were completely loosened from their connections. The 
neighboring muscles presented a similar appearance. 
Observation IV. In the blood and urine of an animal affected with 
the disease in question, the following changes were determined : 
Color of the urine, a dark, dirty brown—it contained an enormous 
quantity of albumin, which, according to an investigation by Dr. Tap- 
peiner, in the Pathological Institute, consisted chiefly of undecomposed 
hoemoglobin. In the urine of the fourth day of the disease, the quan¬ 
tity was double of that on the first. Microscopically were found albumine 
granules and casts, both granular and epithelial—no blood corpuscles. 
The blood drawn direct from a vein showed not the slightest change. 
An analysis of the chemical and pathological features of the dis¬ 
ease follows: 
The three most important symptoms of the disease are r 
1. Hoemoglobinuria. 
2. Albuminuria. 
3. Paralysis, or a sub-paralytic condition of the hind quarters. 
[to be continued.] 
REPORT OF CASES. 
ACCIDENTAL POISONING OF A HORSE BY PARIS GREEN. 
P Y C. P. Lyman, M. R. C. V. S. Springfield, Mass. 
The subject, a good sized bay gelding, twelve years old, with a 
strongly-marked lymphatic temperament, was the property of a farmer, 
who placed within reach of the animal a bucket containing rye flour 
through which had been mixed Paris green, which mixture was intended 
for the potato bug, but which, through carelessness on the part of the 
man, never reached its intended destination, but instead, on May 31st, 
at about 2 o’clock, p. m., was partaken of by the horse in considerable 
quantities, just how much could not be ascertained. 
