32 RINDERPEST. 



Hum collecting on the surface of the membrane around the orifices 

 of the follicles, and thus giving a punctated or honeycomb appearance 

 resembling minute ulcers. The lesion does not extend beyond the 

 pharynx (back mouth), into the gullet* (which exhibits no trace of 

 disease), or into the air passages. The scaly epithelium from the under 

 lip of a diseased cow, as highly magnified is presented in PI. I, fig. 2, 

 where some of it is rolled up into scrolls and cylindrical forms, and 

 other parts show the proper flattened and nucleated appearance. 

 There are also seen a few mucous corpuscles and some vegetable cells 

 from the animal's food. The epithelial scales are very granular, show- 

 ing the earlier processes of retrograde degeneration. 



At the fauces, there is intense inflammation with an effusion of 

 lymph, the parts being dotted over with a yellowish-white pigment. 

 (From observations in Galicia, by Prof. Simonds, in 1857; 1st 

 Rep., p. 5.) 



The buccal membrane around the teeth is ulcerated looking, and 

 stretching between each tooth is a kind of white secretion, which is 

 easily removed and very fetid. (Per W. Pallin, Y. S., Sequel, &c., p. 

 63.) 



II. The Stomachs. The first and second stomachs are generally 

 loaded and distended with food, a circumstance which indicates their 

 suspended functional activity. No change of structure is observed 

 in either organ, and their lining membranes are not reddened or con- 

 gested. f Per contra, their membranes are friable, infiltrated and blood 

 spotted here and there. (Egan.) 



The third stomach, or ©masum, exhibits, after careful search of its 

 folds and in about one-half of the dissections, irregularj circular 

 patches from the size of a pin's head to that of a twenty-five cent 

 piece, which have bright red or scarlet margins, and in the larger 

 patches inclose a central portion of a dirty yellow color and gangren- 

 ous appearance. (PI. Ill, fig. 1.) This portion is slightly depressed, 

 friable, quite bloodless, and the papilla? on its surface shrunken, 

 especially towards the middle, but there is not any breach of substance. 



 The tongue is foul with a greenish yellow deposit about its base, and this exudation some- 

 times extends down the oesophagus (gullet); so marked in one case that Gamgee was induced to 

 make a water sketch of this somewhat unusual condition. (Oamgee's Cattle Plague, p. 68.) 



t In protracted cases^ the epithelium of the rumen has been seen to detach Itself readily, or to 

 be already removed on first examination, and ulceration has been witnessed. Both in the reti- 

 culum (2d stomach) and omasum is found, in some cases, a somewhat reddened mucous membrane 

 beneath the epithelium, which sheds off too freely. (Gamgec's Cattle Plague, p. 69.) 



t Such deeply reddened, more or less, circumscribed patches, have been observed by Prof. J. 

 Gaxoee in pleuro-pnenmonia and cases of chronic impaction of the third stomach. (Gamgee^s 

 Cattle Plague, p. 69.) 



