392 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 
Digestive organs: Tongue, left border has an extensive slough near the tip. Right 
border has a number of firm elevated points, with purple areola and yellow centers. 
Soft palate: Lower or buccal surtace has its follicles deeply stained with blood and 
surrounded with purple areola; some follicles are filled with a yellowish material. 
Right tonsil : Is swollen and has its ducts distended with a thick, tenacious, trans- 
parent mucus, containing great numbers of rounded granular cells. 
Throat: Epiglottis bears spots of congestion ineffaceable by pressure. 
Gullet: Healthy. 
Siomach: Moderately full; acid. The mucous membrane on the great curvature 
presents patches of extravasation and erosion, the latter varying from one to three 
lines in diameter. Contains a worm (ascaris Suilla). 
Small intestine: Contains twelve ascaridcs, one as much as ten and one-eighth inches 
in length. The mucous membrane presents along its whole course patches of redness, 
congestion, and softening, which are especially numerous and extensive towards its ; 
lower portion. 
Tlio-cecal valve: Bears a sloughing ulcer completely encircling it. 
Cecum: Contains a number of ulcers with white sloughs, many of them confluent, 
and forming bands or belts tending to encircle the gut, being situated on the summits 
of the transverse folds. . 
Colon: The anterior portion is much ulcerated, some of the ulcers being confluent 
and tending to form transverse bands as in the cecum, while others are mere circular 
masses, two or three lines in diameter, with white necrotic center, and very little 
vascularity around the margin. 
2ectum: Has patches of congestion and extravasation one line and upwards in 
breadth; in the case of one, advanced to the formation of a firm white slough and 
ulcer as in the cecum. Close tothe anus the entire mucous membrane is very deeply 
congested and thickened hy exudation and extravasation. 
Parasite: The cecum contained one whipworm ( Tricocephalus crenatus). 
Parasites in the peritoneum: In the cavity of the abdomen were found twelve hydatids 
in connection with the liver, stomach, omentum, mesentery, meso-colon, and pelvic 
fascia. Three others were lodged in the perineum near the urethra. 
Kidneys: Softened slightly and of an unusual pallor in their cortical portion. 
Bladder sound. Intrapelvic urethra deep red, almost black, from petechial extra- 
vasation. 
x Urine about two ounces, turbid, strongly acid, albuminous; density, 1020; urea, 
2 per cent. ; 
Chest: Heart has a gelatinoid material filling the auricula-ventricular groove simi- 
lar to that seen in No. —. 
Right heart has a considerable buffy clot in both auricle and ventricle. Left auricle 
contains a small clot, almost the entire substance of which is pale or buffy. It further 
contains some very dark {fluid blood. 
Tings: A few lobulettes only are infarcted or consolidated. In all cases the bron-_ 
chia leading to the consolidated lobulettes are blocked by worms (8S. elongatus). The 
other bronchia are clear of worms excepting in the immediate vicinity of the infarcted 
lobulettes. The great bulk of the lung is healthy, and of a soft white color, slightly 
tinged with pink. 
Parasites: Attached to the pleura were two hydatids. 
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EXPERIMENT No. 7. 
Female pig, eight weeks old, no special breed. Formerly fed raw offal at a slaughter-house. 
Date. | Hour. | ra Remarks. 
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Sept. 30] 3p.m..... | 103.75° F. | Has just come one mile in a wagon. F 
Oct. iy) Dasma S2 | 103.3 
1) sGypeta = =. | 103 | 
2 | 9.30 a.m -- 102 
SUE Sei Ghee see 100. 75 | 
5 | 4p.m..... 102. 2 
6) 5 spam: ean 103 Inoculated with quill charged with matter from diseased lun 
; from New Jersey, six days old; quill treated with solution o 
\ copperas : 1: : 500. 
7 | 11a. m....| 
8 | 12 noon ...} 
Qi plivasare see 
10 | 5p.m_-.--- 
11 | 10 a.m... 
1b praises 
12 | 4p.m..... | 
13 | 12 noon : 
14) 4p sambeese 103.75 \ 
