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in the invisible typhic atom nature gives 

 us death, it also gives us life in the 

 zoosperraa. 



II. 



Lesions found in the Bodies of Oxen after Death. 



The description which we have given of the 

 disorders produced in the different functions 

 by the operation of the typhus, may easily 

 suggest what must be the lesions exhibited by 

 the organs of the body. 



Death, we have said already, may overtake 

 the disease at any of its periods, and thus 

 show every aspect and every degree of the 

 organic lesions. Such an animal being struck 

 down at the period of initiation, will not, of 

 course, present the changes and varieties of 

 the period of decline, and vice versd. 



In general, the state of the dead bodies is 

 that of the most decided marasmus ; the re- 

 mains are intensely repulsive, as well by the 

 stench they emit as by the sight they afford ; 

 and, in summer especially, decomposition 

 sets in with great rapidity. Consequently, 

 the utmost care is required in conveying 

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