152 THE CONTAGIOUS TYPHUS 



outbreak, recover their secretions, but these 

 latter are endowed with irritating properties. 

 Thus the eyelids, swollen and tumefied at the 

 edges beneath the lashes, drip with a corrosive 

 liquid, which soon marks its furrow along the 

 chanfrin ; the bronchia, the trachea, the nos- 

 trils, the salivary glands, exude a serosity 

 which runs out of the nasal and buccal orifices. 

 The exanthematic eruption having discharged 

 itself through the digestive channels, con- 

 stipation is followed by diarrhoea, rumination is 

 completely stopped, the beast declines all solid 

 nutriment, and pants for drinks, for those 

 especially which have a slight taste of acidity 

 in them. 



The derangements at this period pursue a 

 rapid course the breathing becomes more and 

 more dinicult, the skin is hot and dry, the 

 hairs stiffen more and more, gases are de- 

 veloped in the cellular tissues beneath' the 

 skin, along the dorsal vertebrae, at the abdomi- 

 nal folds of the posterior limbs and under the 

 abdomen, in the form of flat, uneven, crepitant 

 tumours, which crackle when pressed with the 

 hand; the diarrhoea becomes more liquefied 



