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stantly aching, headache and sleeplessness were 

 permanent. The animal continued either 

 standing or lying down, and if he wanted to 

 rest, he could not bend himself gradually, but 

 would fall like an inert mass to the ground. 



3rd Period. Diarrhoea was continual, be- 

 coming more fetid every day, the wasting of 

 flesh made rapid strides; the cellular tissue 

 beneath the hide was filled with gas along the 

 vertebral channels and under the abdomen ; the 

 nostrils were stopped up with mucosities, the 

 animal could only breathe through the mouth, 

 puffing and blowing aloud as he drew in the 

 air ; and at last pustular eruptions showed 

 themselves on various parts ; but as this depu- 

 rating crisis was insufficient, the poor beast, in 

 this final period of the attack, fell a sacrifice 

 to it between the seventh and twelfth day. If 

 he chanced to be lying down his agony was 

 slow, but if standing, he would sink upon him- 

 self, and expire at once. 



In this dreadful epizootia, very few of the 

 smitten cattle survived not more than four or 

 five in a hundred; and in these favourable 

 cases, the symptoms presented certain signs 

 and critical phenomena of a happy omen. In 



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