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these rare exceptions, the pulse did not exceed 

 seventy, the beatings of the heart were always 

 perceptible, the patient did not refuse to drink, 

 the continuous fever exhibited no aggravation 

 at night, pustular eruptions and tumours ap- 

 peared on the dewlap and the fore limbs, and 

 the epidermis over the mouth and nostrils 

 peeled off about the twelfth day. 



When dissected, the bodies offered to view 

 the following alterations, the same having al- 

 ready been observed by Frascator during the 

 prevalence of the epizootia in 1514, and by 

 Lancisi and Kamazzini during that which was 

 so fatal in 1711. The mucous glands of the 

 mouth were livid, and occasionally excoriated ; 

 the bronchial tubes were obstructed with 

 mucosities ; the lungs, besides being partially 

 congested, were sometimes emphysematous, 

 that is, inflated with compressed air. Of the 

 four stomachs, the rumen was full of food, the 

 reticulum, the omasum, and the abomasum ex- 

 hibited purple or livid spots, according to their 

 place. The thin intestine and the thick intes- 

 tine showed either a general injection, scattered 

 livid spots, or ulcer ations, according as the fever 

 had worn the exanthematous or typhoid form ; 



