396 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 
Post-mortem examination, November 21, 11 a. m.—Body in good condition. 
Skin: Almost devoid of eruption. The ears alone present increased vascularity, 
with a moderate blush and excess of scurf. 
Digestive organs: Natural above the stomach. Guttural lymphatic glands in part 
congested and the seat of microscopic blood extravasations. Stomach mottled of a 
deep brown for a span of two and one-half inches by three inches along the mucous 
membrane, covering its greater curvature. Contents abundant, intensely acid, and 
fumes with ammonia. 
Duodenum: Bears a small erosion near the pylorus. 
Jejunun and ilium: Have patches of congestion and microscopic extravasation at | 
intervals. 
Ilio-cecal valve: Has its edges thickened and of a dark bluish gray. Many follicles 
in Peyer’s patch covering the valve are distended with a yellowish-white product, but 
there is no extra vascularity nor erosion. 
Cecum, colon, and rectum: Bear at intervals patches of congestion and microscopic 
extravasation in the mucovs and submucous layers, over which the epithelial layer is 
softened and easily detached. No ulcers are found. 
Liver: Discolored in parts by blue punctiform spots involving individual acini or 
several adjacent ones. Toward the lower margin of the gland the deep redness is 
mostly coniined to the center of the acini. . 
Spleen: Seems large, but not unduly gorged with blood nor softened. 
Pancreas: Healthy. 
Kidneys: Pale in their cortical part, present punctiform petechiw on the medullary 
portion and papille. 
Bladder: Empty and normal. Ovaries and womb sound. 
The mesenteric, sublumbar, and inguinal lymphatic glands appeared enlarged and more 
or less stained, of a deep blood-red color. 
Parasites in the abdomen: Two ascarides in the small intestine; one tricocephalus in 
the cecum. 
Inngs: Present numerous congested lobules varying in color from brownish pink to 
a dark purple (almost black). The bronchia leading to these lobules are pervious and 
without parasites. The congested lobules seem less solid than when worms haye been 
present. 
Heart and pericardium: Normal. 
Brain: Sound. Dura mater bears four patches of extravasation on the right side 
near the vertex. The average breadth of these is one line. 
Spinal cord: Sound; subarachnoid fluid, about two drachms. 
EXPERIMENT No. 10. 
White male pig, eight weeks old; breed, Chester White; condition, fine. 
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Date. Hour. pp ees e Remarks. 
z, 9 | Inoculated with mucus and congested and softened_mucous 
Nov. ; Danes ical eee 104.759 F. § membrane of the small intestines of No. —, found dead this 
a y . morning. 
63/310 -<-- = 103. 75 
Zi Sone Weceeene 103. 8 
oh Beacti) S Sees 103. 75 
dy esee doees-- 102.5 
OU oa O ease 104.5 
14 EO ysa 22. 103.5 
iBD | Ree Aaa eae 104 Ears red. 
753 ea eee ee 104.5 
1} GAAS eae 105 
TE epee (Oe eee jm 105-3 Losing condit.sn. The skin shows the customary black necrotie 
H spots of epidermis. Fars blue at edges. 
TSU |isipsans =.= 103.5 Respiration 36. Killed by bleeding. 
Post-mortem examination.—Skin: Slight eruption on the ears and blueness on the 
margins. 
Digestive organs: No lesions in the mouth or pharynx. 
Pharyngeal lymphatic glands: Stained of a deep blood-red color. 
Stomach: Well filled with food. Contents strongly acid. On the great curvature a 
space of two and one-half inches square has a brownish mottled discoloration, and 
numerous deeper brownish markings, as if from altered hematine. 
Small intestine: Epithelium is thick, soft, and easily detached. Contents liquid, 
with a great excess of mucus. The bowelis reddened and congested around its entire 
