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in a fatal resolution of the malady lie observed. Gamgee, 

 however, who is a zealous advocate of the theory from which 

 we dissent, quoting at length the passage from Layard, 

 which precedes his prognosis, and omitting the latter ; in a 

 note-comment on the ** tumors or hoils felt under the panni- 

 culus carnosus," &c., declares these to be *' evidently the 

 emphysematous swellings " described by him as apt to form 

 within the first three days after the external symptoms are 

 manifest, and about the stage of the disease when severe 

 diarrhoea sets in and thirst supervenes. It is clear, however, 

 that the term " boils" was used in the unsophisticated sense 

 of that term.* 



But what says Dr. Layard of the morbid appearances 

 which were presented on dissection. We will note most of 

 those characteristic of the malady of 1745. 



"The membrane of the nose (note Rammazini, p. 458), the glands 

 (note Lancisi, III, 11), the whole extent of the frontal si?nis, the pith 

 of the horns highly inflamed, ulcerated and full of small abscesses ; 

 the same appearance in the mouth and about the glands of the throat. 

 The lungs inflamed with livid sphacelated spots and here and there 

 loaded with hydatids. The heart large, flabby and dark colored, 

 containing in its ventricles clots of black blood, of a very loose texture 

 without serum, the fat about it of a bright yellow. The liver large, 

 its blood and biliary vessels fully extended with dark fluid blood and 

 very deep colored bile; the substance of the liver so rotten as to 

 separate on the least touch ; the gall bladder stretched to a great 

 size and full of greenish bile; the oesophagus ulcerated in some. 

 Several marks of inflammation and gangrene appeared on all the 

 stomachs — all the intestines empty, and beset with red and black 

 spots. The kidneys and bladder large, without urine ; the kidneys of 

 a loose texture, easily torn. The flesh in some was livid, in others of 

 a lively red, but soon turned green. The fat that remained was of a 

 bright yellow all over the body. In such cows as were with calf the 

 uterus was gangrened in several places, and the waters which sur- 

 rounded the fa3tu8 or calf stunk intolerably. In short every carcass 

 gave sufficient evidence of a general putrefaction," &c. 



It should be noted that the italics are those applied by the 

 learned Doctor mostly to his Latin terms. We have refrained 



* Cattle PUgue, pp. 48, 6S. 



