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small quantity of serum escaped, but not more than I might 
have expected. When I reached the bowels, I found the seat of 
the difficulty near the commencement of the colon, at its largest 
part, for about a foot in length. Complete mortification had 
ensued, the discoloration becoming gradually less, till it ceased 
altogether about three feet up the bowels. Traced up to the 
band connecting the colon together, the congestion was very in¬ 
tense, extending along this band several feet; the blood was 
bright in color. I cut open the colon at its most intensely dis¬ 
eased part, and found it very rotten, so much so that I could tear 
it very easily. When I examined the inside of the bowel, I 
found what I thought was extensive interstitial infiltration. No 
blood appeared to be mixed with the contents of the bowel. The 
inside of the bowel was as black as the outside, or more so, and 
had a rough, or corrugated appearance. The rectum was healthy, 
no discoloration of it or that portion of the colon connecting 
with it, excepting a small portion of the small intestine that 
touched the mortified colon, which was discolored; the remainder 
of the small intestines were healthy. I took out the rest of the 
viscera. The liver was sound; I thought it small and com - 
pact. The spleen the same. The stomach was sound and full 
of food, so that nothing, I think, could have left that or¬ 
gan from the time the animal eat its meal in the evening. 
The lungs showed traces of former diseased action, nothing recent 5 
they looked just as I should expect lungs to look had the animal 
been bled to death. I am sure they were quite as pale as any 
lungs I ever saw taken from a beef or porker, that had been pro¬ 
perly butchered. At some period of the animal’s life pneumonia 
must have existed on the upper portion of both lungs. Partial 
adhesion existed on the extreme thin edge of the left lung. A 
portion of the lung seemed to have been absorbed, and the edges 
healed. 
The heart was large and fiabby to the touch. When I cut open 
the heart there was no blood in either ventricle or auricle. One 
question with me is, what had become of all the blood ? I do not 
believe there was three gallons in the whole horse, and yet it was 
a large animal, weighing not less than 1,250 lbs. This animal had 
