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from the ocular mucous membranes, and also 

 from the nasal and buccal, which are red and 

 inflamed, and they already emit a foetid smell. 

 The dull tarnished eyes become hollowed, 

 purulent mucus lodges within their orbits, the 

 bronchia are stopped up, the breathing grows 

 louder and more panting, the animal instinc- 

 tively stretches his neck to ease it ; the wasting 

 of the flesh exposes the bones of the sacrum 

 and coccyx, laying bare the vertebra and the 

 ribs; the emphysematous tumours are more 

 extensive and crackling ; the skin, less heated, 

 wrinkles up and splits about the bony pro- 

 tuberances; the udders are crusty and exco- 

 riated; detached boils, hard and rounded 

 at first, then soft and purulent, begin to 

 show themselves on the trunk and the upper 

 parts of the limbs. The diarrhoea, still fre- 

 quent, becomes bloody and intolerably offen- 

 sive. 



At this final period the organic structure 

 yields to the effects of a general alteration of 

 the liquids and solids. The vital force has 

 lost the power of reaction ; a mass of blood, 

 decomposed by the double influence of a viru- 



