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changed for a reddened tint, still with an element of brown, which 

 imparts a peculiar duskiness to it. (PI. XII, fig. 2.) If the animal is 

 slaughtered early in the development of disease, there cannot be 

 detected any alteration in the carcass. (Higgins, 1st Rep., p. 119.) 

 Prof. Briicke, of Vienna, stated that during a recent epidemic of 

 steppe murrain, in Bohemia, the authorities, according to their prac- 

 tice, had the diseased beasts slaughtered and buried; but that the 

 populace dug the carcasses up and ate them without any injury.* 

 Similar accounts of plenty of cases are] given in Levy's Traite 

 Hygiene. (J. Simon.) 



It is of considerable importance that we should state, that 

 of the 98 cases tabularly reported by Dr. Smart, with the 

 distinctive lesions which they revealed on dissection prior to 

 the 11th of December last, thirteen were examined as dis- 

 tinctive cases of murrain or mouth and foot rot, and pleuro- 

 pneumonia, ten of the former and three of the latter. It was 

 deemed highly desirable to furnish a comparison of the lesions 

 which these diseases cause, inasmuch as many of the cases 

 of Rinderpest were found to be complicated with these and 

 other fatal maladies ; twelve with chronic pleuro-pneumonia, 

 five with double chronic pleuro-pneumonia, five with pleurisy, 

 acute and chronic, one with pulmonary apoplexy, &c. 



The reddened aspect of the lining membrane of the 

 fourth stomach in murrain is limited to the upper third 

 of the membrane, never exhibits the purple or mulberry 

 tinge, but is found associated with dark colored spots, which 

 are sub-mucous haemorrhages or apoplexies ; the blood thus 

 effused ultimately induces erosion of the superjacent mem- 

 brane, while the epithelium is entire and the mucous 

 membrane otherwise sound. The dark irregular patches 

 seen in the membrane (PI. IX, fig 3), representing the 

 haemorrhages or apoplexies of the mucous membrane in 

 murrain (or mouth and foot rot), are never present in Rinder- 

 pest, but have been found in all of Dr. Smart's dissections 

 of murrain cattle. Though the mouth shows discolorations, 



* It is to be hoped that the food thng eaten was thoroughly cooked, so as to destroy the entozoa, 

 which have almost Invariably been found In animals dying of the cattle plague, and In much 

 larger numbers than in the cases of healthy animals. For description, &c., of the anlmalcultG, 

 gee Appendix to Cattle Plague, p. 819. 



