DISEASES OF SWINE AND OTHER ANIMALS. 
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EXPERIMENT No. 2. 
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Has just come one mile in a wagon. 
Bovwels quite loose; rain. 
Inoculated from quill dipped in liquids of diseased Inngs forty- 
eight hours ago in New Jersey; quill treated with chloride of 
| zine before inoculating. 
Scouring; placed in pen with semi-putrid ulcerated intestine 
and manure of diseased pig. 
Inoculated with quill charged with liquid from Inngs of pigs 
having no bowel lesions; sent from Indiana. 
Pining; gets lighter daily. 
Wasting, but lively. 
Very weak and exhausted; surface cold; breathing slow and 
rattling ; left its bed, but was unable to get back without as- 
| sistance. An hour later breathing seemed to have ceased, but 
when removed for dissection it returned in a gasping manner; 
| killed by bleeding. 
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Post-mortem examination.—Skin: Pale, bloodless, withered, and inelastic, covered 
almost universally with black concretions or unhealthy-looking and thick, dirty, 
white scurf. Snout beneath the nostrils blue, but not ecchymosed. 
Digestive organs: Tongue healthy ; beneath the right tonsil is a considerable collec- 
tion of dirty, grayish-yellow, cheesy matter, consisting of pus-cells and much granular 
matter. 
Stomach: Moderately full, contents fetid and slightly acid, firmly adherent to the 
mucous membrane, and bringing off part of the epithelium when detached. The mu- 
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