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tinal canal, resulting in a desquamation of its mucous surface in casts. 

 In one case the entire epithelial lining of the small intestine, in a per- 

 fect tube, was passed from the bowel and has been preserved. (Smart.) 

 The general weakness and leanness (of the body) makes rapid pro- 

 gress, the eyes sink in, the sight is weak, air tumors rise in the back 

 under the skin, groans and difficulty of breath become continually 

 more violent, the ichorous discharge from the open fundament flows 

 involuntarily, and finally the beast cannot stand any longer, but lies 

 on its side with its head turned, until at once, generally, between the 

 fifth and ninth day (in very bad cases between the third and fourth) 

 death comes on with convulsions. (Egan.) 



The staring hide and arched back are not characteristic of the 

 Rinderpest, but of pleuro-pneumonia ; but they occasionally make 

 their appearance when the j^es^ is complicated with the latter disease. 

 (Smart.) 



On looking at the carcass the hair is seen bristling ; a whitish slime 

 appears at the corners of the eyes and nostrils, partly dried to a 

 bark ; the hind quarters are much swollen ; the mucous membrane of 

 the bowels projecting through the fundament is of a bluish red color, 

 &c. (Egan.) 



We deem it judicious to add to the already extended 

 accouut of general symptoms a few detailed cases taken 

 from Jessen, of animals described numerically in his report; 

 because the accuracy of his details (as to time at least) may 

 be of future benefit in the study of individual cases should 

 the disease break out in this country. We have also added 

 to the description of symptoms in each case, the 'post mortem 

 observations, that the symptoms and pathological appear- 

 ances might be grouped together, and for the further reason 

 that it may be desirable to separate the description of his 

 inoculated cases from those given by Smart and others, and 

 perchance distinguish between the English type of this mur- 

 rain and that observed in some parts of the continent. 



No. 6 was a steppe cow, seven years old, sickly before vaccination 

 and in thin flesh. Woolen threads were saturated with the secretions 

 (from eyes, &c.) of a yearling calf, and inserted as a seton on both 

 sides of the neck and before the shoulders. 



Symptoms as follows : Oii Qth day, short, hacking cough. On 1th 

 day, loss of vivacity, drooping head and hanging ears ; rumination 



