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ceased ; shaking of head ; gnashing of teeth ; hair bristling and 

 skin lying in folds. On the right side auscultation showed blow- 

 ing murmurs ; and percussion, dullness. On same evening, eyes and 

 nose began to run ; milk diminished and had strong salty taste ; res- 

 piration and pulsation equal to 60 per minute. On ^th day these 

 rose to 80 ; secretions increased ; ears and horns alternately hot 

 and cold ; mouth hot ; chilliness over the whole body ; neither eat nor 

 drank. On 9th day^ respiration 100, with sighing ; left side of bowels 

 tympanitic, but normal at six p. m., when pulse was 88; diarrhoea 

 mixed with blood ; aphthous appearance of vulva. On 10th day, 

 pulse 108; respiration 50, and sighing; bloody diaiThoea ; colliqua- 

 tions from nose and eyes ; body cold, and death at six p. m. 



I^ost-mortem. Besides ordinary external appearances, the veins of 

 the brain were engorged ; one of the lymphatics contained hard par- 

 ticles ; hyperaemia in the base. Lungs full of air, not much reddened 

 (emphysema in all the cellular tissues between the lobes) and con- 

 tained many hydatids. Pericardium and heart normal. 3Iucmis 

 memhrane of fourth stomach (PI. IV, fig 2) violet in some places ; in 

 the folds ecchymoses shining through ; duodenum not much red- 

 dened, and filled with bilious slime. Jejunum (PI. VII, fig 1), colored 

 blackish by pigment on the mucous membrane. Here and in the 

 ileum the Peyerian glands raised and strongly injected. The capil- 

 laries of the colon and ccecum (PI. VIII. fig 1, giving a view of the 

 mucous membrane of the latter), were injected, showing a great many 

 red points and streaks, which were also found in the rectum, but 

 nowhere ulceration; many ecchymoses in the small bowels, visible 

 inside and outside ; mesenteric glands swollen and showing much 

 pigment when cut through. In every one, as a proof of former 

 ailment, chalky concretions from the size of a leiitil to a pea. Liver 

 full of hydatids; ovaries, kidneys and bladder normal and their 

 mucous membranes healthy. 



No. 14, a steppe calf of No. 6, nine months old, and placed beside 

 his vaccinated mother, caught the infection naturally, and after 

 twenty-seven days from first exposure seemed to have recovered, and 

 was sent to a neighboring place to be herded with another lot of dis- 

 eased animals. After twelve days it was started for home, and being 

 led behind the wagon with a rope tied carelessly around its neck, it 

 suffocated and was brought home dead. 



Post-mortem. Lungs partly hepatized with some small ulcers ; 

 ventricles and auricles of the heart empty ; paunch distended ; third 

 stomach hard, and when opened epithelial lining adhered to the food ; 



