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tributed over the surface of bis body. I removed the right fore leg and 

 shoidder, the wall of the chest and abdomeu. The animal was not very 

 fat, but the fat was the color of yellow beeswax, with a slight greeuish 

 tiut added to it. 1 removed the spleen, but in doing so I had to use the 

 utmost precaution in handling it so as not to rupture its covering mem- 

 brane. The organ was of an enormous size, and apparently distended 

 to its utmost capacity, weighing after removal 13 pounds and measuring 

 30 inches in length. 1 next removed the digestive organs. Thecontents 

 of the third stomach were slightly hardened; the lining of the fourth 

 stonmch presented numerous and extensive patches of denuded surface 

 of irregular forms, and many of them having an ulcer-like appearance. 



There was considerable capillary congestion of the mucous membrane 

 throughout the intestinal canal; a few of the intestinal glands appeared 

 to be enlarged and were changed in color to a grayish blai-k. The liver 

 weighed 24^ pounds; its structure was somewhat softened by a fatty 

 degeneration, and impressions of the fingers were left upon it as is com- 

 mon ill fjedematous swellings. The gall-bladder contained 32 ounces 

 of bile of normal color, but was rendered more or less viscid and gluti- 

 nous by the admixture of mucus from the internal surftice of the gall- 

 bladder; the walls of the gall-bladder itself were thickened, caused by 

 tumefaction of the mucous coat. The urine-bladder contained a gallon 

 or more of a brownish-red colored urine, specific gravity 1.008. The left 

 kidney weighed 4i pounds; was darker in color than normal. The gland- 

 ular structure of the right kidney was entirely absorbed; the pelvis 

 and some of the larger ducts had become changed into cysts, containing 

 a clear amber colored fluid possessing the smell of healthy urine. It 

 l)resented eight of these cysts, each one distinct and separate from the 

 other, and all taken together formed in bulk about the sizh; of a normal 

 kidney. After the letting out of the fluid, I had nothing in my hand 

 except a mass of fibrous tissue — thereexhted notthe least remains of gland- 

 ular tissue. The heart weighed 8 pounds; was enlarged and flabby ; the 

 external surface was extensively ecchymosed along the anterior and 

 posterior ventricular furrows; internally, the fleshy columns were al- 

 .mostof a black color from ecchymoses; no heart clots in the cavities. 

 Tiie animal seemed almost bloodless, the veins and arteries being empty 

 and collapsed. Mr. McGee stated that this animal had been lame for 

 the i)ast fifteen months in his right hind leg, andthat at times he thought 

 he could not well serve a cow on account of weakness or pain in the 

 back. In the latter j^art of June, McGee saw 250 head of cattle 

 crossing his range. They were said to be going into Arizona; they looked 

 like Arkansas cattle. 



From McGee's we drove to the plac^^ of Robert J. Evans, having heard 

 that he had several sick cattle. He lives about (5 miles east of Kiowa, 

 Barbour County. When we arrived at his ])lace no one was at home, 

 but we found a dead cow lying not over ten rods away from the house; 

 «he had the appearance of having died within a few hours. I proposed 



