400 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. ~ 
gesta. The coats of this bowel were more or less congested, with softening of the 
membrane at different points. 
A large ulcer is forming on the edge of the ilio-cxecal valve, in which the outline of 
the follicles can still be seen of a yellowish color. 
Large intestines: Caecum and colon congested throughout, but much more at some 
points than at others. In the upper part of the colon are extensive deposits of false 
membrane of a dirty yellowish-white color, in places in spots of small size, and in 
others in extended patches of several inches in length. The cecum has smaller spots 
of the same kind. The rectum is very much thickened and of a deep red throughout, 
the thickening existing mainly in the mucous membrane. It presents, further, nine 
small ulcers, with the characteristic dirty sloughs in the centers. 
Parasites : The cecum contains one whip-worm. 
Liver: In the main firm, but contains bluish patches. 
Pancreas: Apparently unchanged. 
Spleen: Black, full of blood, but not apparently enlarged. 
Mesenteric and sublumbar lymphatic glands: Are almost universally of a dark red, 
almost black color. 
The left kidney: Has a cyst one-half inch in diameter in the anterior part of its pelvis. 
In common with the right kidney, it also presents numerous black petechia on the 
medullary portions and papille. 
Chest and respiratory organs: Larynx shows considerable congestion, especially on 
the epiglottis and on the arytenoid cartilages. 
Pleure: Contained an abundant blood-colored liquid exudation, especially in the 
right sac, where the lung had contracted extensive adhesions by newly-formed false 
membranes. The liquid effusion contained numerous white and red blooddobules and 
actively-moving bacteria, which assumed the most varied forms in rapid succession, 
A loose coagulum forms in the exposed fluid. 
Bronchia: Filled with froth having a perceptibly pink tint. 
Left lung: Anterior lobes congested and consolidated by recent exudation. Posterior 
layer lobe sound. 
Right lobe: Consolidated throughout; sinks in water; but has not yet become firm, 
granular, nor friable. The color of this lung varies from a light brick-red to a deep 
red, approaching black, the darker shades mostly occupying the spaces of connective 
tissue between the lobules, these spaces being often stretched by the exudation to the 
breadth of a line or more. On making a section of the lung a considerable pulmonary 
vein was found to contain a friable granular grayish clot which had evidently existed 
for some time before death. 
Pericardium: Contains a large amount of blood-colored effusion, in which blood- 
globules and moving bacteria abound. The parietal and visceral layers were con- 
nected by loose false membranes. Loose dark clots and some fluid blood existed in 
the right side of the heart, and spots of extravasation on the walls of the left ventricle. 
Iymphatic glands: In the region of the throat are of a very deep red. The same 
remark applies to the bronchial and subdorsal glands. 
Table showing the duration of incubation in different cases. 
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