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In three I found the right lung slightly diseased, but not sufficient to cause 
death. I may as well state here that the lungs are not the seat of the disease. 
The slight cough is caused by the free flow of mucus in the air passages, being 
caused by a suspension of vital power. The air passages and lungs of all are 
found covered with this yellow mucus. In some, the kidneys are found 
enlarged ; in all they are very black. The covering does not Seem to have 
undergone any organic change, but the pulp is congested, acid, and very tender. 
Here, too, you find effusion, the cavity being full of bloody urine. More marked 
traces of disease are found in the spleen; in all cases it is found enlarged, pied, 
and very tender. A very characteristic change is found in the bile, it is con- 
verted into a black, thick, granulated mass, that will hardly run, and the portion 
of liver to which the sack adheres is gangrenous. 
The bladder does not show any change in texture, but contains a large 
amount of bloody urine, generally very offensive to the smell. In some cases 
the bladder is enormously distended, the bladder and contents of one weighing 
nine pounds. 
In some the heart and its covering show evident signs of a diseased condition 
of the blood, to wit, the pericardium and heart being spotted by blood extra- 
vasations. in a tew cases the same have been found under the skin. I will here 
remark, before I proceed any further, that sufficient evidence is here found to 
prove conclusively that if it is not a blood poison from the first, the vitality of 
the blood is soon destroyed in part. 
In all cases I found the liver congested, tender, and the pulp black. In 
some it is normal in size. The spinal cord, as far as examined, in color is nor- 
mal, but too soft; in some places the covering shows congestion, and here, too, 
is found the same yellow effusion. In one, the thyroid gland was found enlarged, 
but from what cause could not be told. 
In the second stomach evident traces of a high grade of inflammation is found, 
probably from some local poison, as the manifolds in nearly all are found morti- 
fied. 
In a few cases I have seen drops of blood standing on the animal before 
death, and reliable men tell me of the same. 
The nostrils, fauces, and respiratory passages are found covered with this 
yellow mucus, or serum. It is also found deposited in the areolar tissue, and 
in a few cases large quantities were found in the cavity of the body. Nor is 
this strange when we take into consideration the congested condition of the liver 
and yellow appearance of the fluid. 
The above are the anatomical conditions of the parts so far as I have been 
able to go. Not having time to investigate all, | here offer you a few facts in 
regard to the Texas cattle : 
First. Are they diseased ¢ 
They are; at least some of them, and this can be proved by good men. I 
deprecate the necessity of having to differ with high authority. But when 
proof looks you in the face as plainly as it has in this it should not be passed 
by or covered up. Go to the farmers, and all who have seen these cattle, and 
they will tell you that the Texas cattle, when sick, had the same symptoms that 
our sick cattle had. Ask the men that had them in Chicago what was the matter, 
and they will tell you that they had been hurt on the cars. Who ever heard 
before of sick steers by shipment only 230 miles by rail and there were between 
two and three hundred died. 
One man at Tolono told me “he had skinned 170 himself,” and that ‘“ part 
of them were injured so as to cause death, but their vital organs were healthy.” 
Also, that part had died of disease, and the same organs in the Texas cattle 
