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gestion. The arachnoid contained quite a great quantity of red serosity 
under its visceral layer, between the cerebral and cerebellous circum¬ 
volutions. The piamater is gorged with blood. The whole cortical 
layer of the encephalic mass is strongly hyperhemic. But it is specially 
round the anterior extremity of the left cerebral lobe that the lesion is 
the most marked. There was a true inflammation, with fibrinous exu¬ 
dation, under the visceral arachnoid layer, and a beginning of red, 
muddy, wine-colored suppuration in the nervous substance. In open¬ 
ing the ventricles, an ovoid tumor, flatten from above, below, and en¬ 
tirely filling their cavities, was found. They both measured about seven 
centimeters in length, and two and a half in width, with nearly two in 
thickness. The left one was dark red by a deep vascular injection of 
the choroid plexus. On their surface was seen a mass of little points, 
of a white, nacreous color, shining and micaceous in aspect. In the 
right ventricle there was but a few drops of transparent serosity, while 
the left contained some cloudy, whitish, purulent liquid. The tissue of 
these tumors was firm, easily torn, and, examined under the microscope, 
was seen to be composed exclusively of very numerous and fine blood¬ 
vessels, with elements of conjunctive tissue. The shining spots which 
were found also over the surface of these tumors, prove to be cristals of 
cholesterine. All the other viscera, liver, spleen, kidneys, intestines^ 
&c., were normal .”—Archives Veterinaire , September, 1877. 
DEATH FROM RUPTURE OF THE RIGHT PELVI CRURAL AND 
OTHER VENOUS TRUNKS. 
By W. A. Taylor, F. R. C. V. S., Manchester. 
On July 13, a bay draught horse was brought to the Infirmary, pre¬ 
spiring profusely, breathing greatly distressed, gait reeling; placed in a 
loose box, he immediately fell down and died. Seen about half an hour 
after death, the blanched appearance of the visible mucous membrane 
allowed a diagnosis of internal hemorrhage to be made. 
1 he history of the case is briefly this : The horse was walking be¬ 
hind a burry, to which he was tied, and behind him was another horse 
and burry. The last-mentioned horse stumbled; his driver struck 
him with a whip; the horse jumped forward, and one of the shafts 
entered the anus of the horse in front, thus, as it were, impaling him for 
the instant. The injured horse struggled to free himself, and fell, and 
on the shaft being withdrawn from the rectum, a large quantity of blood 
followed in a gush, very little external hemorrhage afterwards taking 
