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same. Sometimes the animal is agitated at 

 first, and all the functions of life are so dis- 

 turbed that death comes on in the two or three 

 first days. At other times, the lungs are more 

 affected than the other internal organs ; the 

 cough is more intense, the breath hurried and 

 obstructed, the excess of mucus preventing the 

 air from passing into the chest. 



When once you have seen this disease it is 

 impossible to mistake it for any other, unless 

 it be the chest complaint called peripneumonia, 

 which is likewise contagious. But in this dis- 

 ease, as the Eeport of the Eoyal Agricultural 

 Society states, the attack is generally insi- 

 dious; the eyes preserve their vivacity, and the 

 appetite is not lost until towards the close. A 

 short, dry cough shows itself from the out- 

 break, and persists. The breathing is frequent 

 and painful ; the sides of the chest when 

 struck with the fingers give out the hard, solid 

 sound of a full barrel, this percussion being 

 painful. The eyes, nose, and mouth do not 

 discharge those purulent secretions seen in 

 typhus ; the diarrhoea only comes on at the 

 end, being less frequent and fetid. In the 

 milch cows the milk decreases, but is not quite 



