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Post-mortem examination.—Blood: Dark colored; contained moving bat 
Digestive organs: Tongue sound. Tonsils unusually red in their openiny ) 
Submazillary and guttural lymphatic glands: Of x dark red, merging to a trty chien 
Peritoneum: With considerable reddish-brown efiusion and bands of recentiy formed 
false membrane. The liquid coagulates on exposure. Under the microscope(No. 10° 
Hartnack) it is seen to contain numerous moving bacteria, also others less actiy 
two or four segmented chain-like. 
Stomach : Full; sour. Great curvature mottled red and brown. 
Small intestines: Has considerable tracks of deep congestion. It contains much mi 
cus, and ten ascarides. One asearis extended into the gall-duct and as far as the 
center of the right lobe of the liver; a second extended into the middle hepatic lebe. 
The pressure of these had led to a considerable dilatation of the bile-duct just above 
its junction with the cystic duct. 
Llio-cecal valve: Very black, with its follicles enlarged and filled with a yellowish 
product. The whole length of the large intestine is black from deep pigmentation of 
its mucous membrane, which is, besides, greatly thickened and puckered. Both con- ‘ 
ditions imply former active inflammation. =e 
The rectum: Of a dark grayish red; had several caseous deposits under its mucous 
membrane. ; 
The mesentery : Contains a yellowish easeous deposit as large as a pea. 
All the lymphatic glands of the abdomen are greatly enlarged, pigmented, andin many 
cases reddened from recent blood-staining. The inguinal lymphatic glands and those 
of the flank are in a similar condition. ; 
Liver: Has patches of deeper purple discoloration, especially deep in the center of AY 
the acini. Pancreas sound. a 
Spleen: Shrunken with puckered edges, and whitish thickening of its proper capsule. Pee 
Kidneys: Vascular, congested and softened; corticle part dull brownish yellow. 
Medullary, more or less purple, with deeper shades in linesradiating fromthe papilla. - 
Respiratory organs: Margin of epiglottis bears a blue patch, surrounded by ramified ; 
redness. Bronchi and bronchia sound, 
Tungs: Of varying shades of light pink in the lobules, excepting one or two, 
-which are of a dark red. The interlobular spaces are of a deep blood-red color, 
giving a dark marbling over the entire surface. Right pleura contains a little effusion 
with thread-like false membranes, and the same bacteria named as existing in the 
peritoneum. 
The axillary prepectoral, internal pectoral, bronchial, and sub-dorsal lymphatic glands 
were enlarged, pigmented, and in some cases blood-stained. “J 
The heart hore some purple discolored spots on the internal lining. 
EXPERIMENT No. 3. 
Poland China pig, nine weeks old. 
Temperature | F 
Hour. | of body. | Remarks. 
102.5 ° F. | Placed in infected pen from which a sick pig had been removed 
December 6. 
Eyes very red and prominent, Scarcely able to stand. Sereams 
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101 | 
‘when touched. (Evident phrenitis.) Died at 2. p. m. 
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Post-mortem examination the same afternoon. —Skin: Presented little change. 
Digestive organs : Mouth sound, fauces and pharynx of a deep blue color, irremova- 
ble by pressure. 
Stomach: A portion of about an inch square of a deep red, and with an abundant 
gelatiniform exudation under the mucous membrane. 
