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THEO. S. VERY. 
Schneiderian membrane somewhat pale and dry ; conjunctiva slightly 
injected ; surfaces warm ; general appearance dull. He staggered 
from weakness, and coughed with considerable violence. The cough 
was resonant, strong, but evidently distressing. No one could approach 
him without detecting at once a most disagreeable odor escaping from 
his head. When he coughed and held his head down, about a teacupful 
in all of what looked to me like gruel, but what afterward proved to 
be a mixture of pus with bran mash, escaped from his mouth on to the 
floor. There was positive dullness on both sides of the chest, and an 
absence of respiratory murmur. 
I notified Drs. Stickney and Sanders of the case, and they both 
saw it on that day. Sunday night he was killed, and Monday at 3, p.m., 
a post-mortem was held, at which were present Drs. Lyman, of Spring- 
field ; Wrn. Saunders, J. S. Saunders, Stickney, Bryden and Colburn, 
of Boston. 
The abdominal cavity was first exposed. There were evidences of 
peritonitis having existed. In the caecum and colon and in some por¬ 
tions of the mucous membrane of the small intestines there were 
traces of the results of inflammation, a gangrenous appearance. 
Contents of stomach and bowels scanty in bulk and soluble. When 
the stomach was cut into the odor escaping from it proved to be the 
same in character as that noticed on Saturday. 
Between the walls and covered by the mucous coat there were 
were found two abscesses. The recent one was discharging through a 
small opening through the mucous coat into the stomach, and was 
about the size of a large hen s egg. 1 he other had become hardened 
down and was one-third less size. 
Thoracic cavity at first sight showed a fine pair of lungs, free from 
evidences of disease. No effusion, no lymph. 
On making a cross section ot the trachea, and afterward a trails-" 
verse section, the interior appeared gangrenous. There was some dis¬ 
organization of the lung tissue around and immediately adjacent to the 
trachea, and bifurcations the result of congestion and post-mortem 
change. 
d he walls of the heart were flabby and atrophied. I conjecture 
that some of the fluids which were given to the animal, entered the 
trachea and caused the disturbance in respiration. So far as the ap¬ 
parent cause of previous attacks of colic are concerned, the examina¬ 
tion proved satisfactory. 
