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perhaps at the commencement) enormously increased. 3rd. The 

 salts are slightly increased. 4th. The casein appears to be gene- 

 rally increased. 



The same experimenter, making analyses of urine, discovered 

 the colouring matter present in three cases ; in one the bile acids — 

 leucine and tyrosine — being nowhere found. In the majority of 

 cases urea, by percentage analysis, was not diminished, and varied, 

 from 1'75 to 2 3 per cent. 



Dr. Smart remarks upon the difference in the respective den- 

 sities of healthy and poisoned blood. The temperature in both 

 cases is the same — 91^ Fahr. ; but the specific gravity of corrupted 

 blood is 59°, that of healthy blood 52^. The microscope 

 invariably discovers an excess in the numerical proportion of 

 white corpuscles to the red, as compared with health ; while in 

 the case of milli it exhibits a consistence exclusively of fatty cells, 

 crowded together and overlving one another. 



In a recent number of the ' Homoeopathic Review,' Dr. WiLSON 

 described certain phenomena which he had remarked by auscul- 

 tation to exist in animals exhibiting none of the characteristic 

 marks of the disease, but in which these characteristic marks 

 were subsequently fully developed. Dr. Teipe, in his evidence 

 before the Cattle-Plague Commissioners, confirms this observation 

 of Dr. Wilson's. He says, " By auscultation of the lungs and 

 careful examination of the animal, the disease may be detected in 

 a very early stage. I may state that I have auscultated several 

 cows, and found certain alterations in the breathing sounds in 

 each indicative of approaching congestion of the lungs, before the 

 running from the nose and eyes commenced." — (Question 2729.) 



Let us now return to the less obscure evidence of the inroads 

 of disease. 



Professor GamGEE's diagnosis agrees, with few exceptions, 

 Avith those already quoted. He differs from Dr. Smart, whose 

 expei'ience leads him to consider "a short husky cough" to be 

 often a symptom of pure rinderpest. He also directs particular 

 attention to the striking restlessness of the animal. He observes, 

 too, " that animals may become quite convalescent about the 

 third day, but still the gastric or intestinal lesions may advance ; 

 and when least expected, a fortnight or three weeks after marked 

 improvement, alarming symptoms may supervene, severe diarrhoea 

 occur with the return of the other discharges, and death soon 

 follow." The symptoms when cattle-plague is coupled with 

 pleuro-pneumonia Professor Gamgee has remarked to be more 

 laboured breathing — greater prostration. The short grunt of 

 lung-disease begins early, and spasmodic action of the nostrils is 

 perceptible. The symptoms where foot-and-mouth-disease is 

 coupled with the cattle-plague are lameness and morbid condi- 



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