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and clear, but afterwards becomes thick and 

 purulent, and endowed with the most infec- 

 tious properties. The intestinal mucous mem- 

 brane, smitten with a particular lesion, be- 

 comes the seat of a flux extremely copious and 

 intolerably fetid. Gases, and occasionally 

 purulent deposits, are developed in the cellular 

 tissue beneath the skin. 



7th. The organism or physical frame, dis- 

 turbed in the very centres of life, undergoes 

 a general transformation, a kind of organic de- 

 composition beforehand, and all the symptoms 

 of reaction are followed by a period of wasting 

 atony and adynamia, which usher in dissolu- 

 tion or life's extinction. 



8th. Finally, throughout the whole course 

 of the distemper, one special functional de- 

 rangement stupor has been witnessed as the 

 predominant symptom, the nervous system 

 being in a manner annihilated in its functions 

 in consequence of the general infection. 



Such are, in a brief outline, the principal 

 symptoms of this typhus, which, when once 

 engrafted on the economy, pursues its fatal 

 march, and no treatment can then arrest its 



