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but its lining membrane, as also that of the caecal appendage, is 

 involved in the general hypervascularity. 



There is no sloughing or invagination of the bowels, nor any 

 desquamation of its raucous surface in the form of casts. The intesti- 

 nal glands do not share to any marked extent in the altered condition 

 of the membrane, except that they are obscured by its discoloration. 

 They are never ulcerated, but exhibit the chronic tuberculous condi- 

 tion frequently met with in healthy animals. The mesenteric glands 

 show no lesion of structure, but are bloodless and shrunken, and their 

 lacteal vessels are generally empty. 



IV. Kidneys, Bladder, Uterus, &c. The pyramids of the kid- 

 neys are usually congested ; the cortex is pale, but the structure 

 entire. The lining membranes of the bladder and urethra, never 

 seriously involved, present only the appearances when the organs 

 are congested. The uterus exhibits no peculiar feature; the state 

 of the vagina, and especially of the vulva, being highly characteristic^ 

 the aphthous eruption, as observed in the mouth, being apparent 

 at the junction of the mucous membrane of the vulva with the 

 integument.* (PI. II, fig. 1.) 



The labia superiorly are dry and corrugated, inferiorly coated with 

 discharges thick and putrid, which, when removed, shows the papillary 

 eruption of an aphthous nature. (Pallin.) 



V. Heart, Liver, Spleen. The condition of the heart is not 

 peculiar, but such as is ordinarily induced by many exhausting 

 diseases. Its muscular substance is relaxed and flabby ; there is no 

 valvular lesion or structural change. Ecchymosed patches are some- 

 times seen on the exterior of the ventricles. On the inner part of the 

 heart, and on the left side in particular, petechias were present. 

 (Simonds.) The large vessels and their lining membranes are 

 healthy. The liver is of natural size, pale in color, but sound in 

 structure. [The liver is generally friable and of a clay yellow. Egan.] 

 The gall bladder is usually filed with bile, which is thin and of a 

 light green color, and rarely patchy discolorations are found on its 

 lining membrane. [It is much distended with thin, yellowish gall. 

 Egan.] In one or two instances in Galicia we found ulceration of the 

 mucous membrane»of the gall bladder, and effusion of lymph into the 

 gall ducts. (Simonds.) 



The spleen is too pulpy, and breaks down under slight pressure. 



* The mncouB membrane of the organs of generation is always red, tomefled, and the eplthe- 

 linm nndergoing changes as seen on the mucous surface of the organs of respiration and digestion. 

 (Qamgec, Ac, p. 66.) 



