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ever, preferable to the one adopted in France, 

 where the animal does not sink till he has 

 been struck repeatedly with the club. 



But be that as it may, those authors who 

 have examined the nervous centres of horned 

 cattle which had perished victims of the 

 typhus, have usually found the meninges, or 

 membranes that envelope the brain, injected, 

 whilst the brain itself was slightly dotted over 

 with blood. 



These anatomical lesions of the nervous 

 centres being insufficient of themselves to ex- 

 plain the death at the second period, we have 

 endeavoured to give the explanation of it in 

 treating of the symptoms. 



The other organs, the spleen, the liver, the 

 kidneys, present alterations of a secondary 

 interest only. 



III. 



Diagnosis Prognosis Use of the Flesh of 

 Animals which have Died of the Typhus 

 Danger of direct Absorption. 



The typhus of the ox has such distinct and 

 strongly marked characteristics that it is not 



