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^ The drawing Fig. 3 (p. 481) exliibits the disease in a very different 

 phase— a phase which I take to be that of retrogression and beginning 

 of repair. It comprises the hirge intestine and lower end of the 

 ileum of a pig which died on the twenty-sixth day of illness. The 



Fig. 1 a. — Stomach of V\%, shewiDg Crst stage of disease. 



appearance of the diseased parts is in the highest degree i^ecnliar. 

 Viewed at a little distance, the gut looks exactly as if a number of 

 thin discs of calmnba-root had been stuck on to it. A friend prefers 

 to liken them to the discs of a leathery sort of lichen, ^\-ith which 

 most persons must be familiar, as infesting the bark of certain trees. 



