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which the salts bore to either, except in the case of the milk.* 

 The analysis of the iirinef in some cases showed the chlo- 

 rides to be abundant ; in others, where inflammation (pneu- 

 monic especially) was extensive, deficient; but these were 

 never quantitatively determined. It is to be regretted that 

 the same elaborate examination has not been essayed to 

 ascertain the loss of the several saline constituents of the 

 blood, and the order in which they take their departure from 

 the serum as well as from the blood corpuscles in cases of 

 the Pest, as has been in those of cholera. We would then 



with little points of a yellowish Or dark brown, softened and ulcerated, they have been ob- 

 served principally during the typhoid period, and in the mixed kind of choleraic processes. 



Finally, in typhoid and choleraic dysenteric forms, I have often seen the mucous membrane, 

 especially in the ileum, stripped of its villosities for a considerable extent. 



The exfoliation of the cylindrical epithelium, and the denudation of the villosities, are not to be 

 considered as pathological indications essential and characteristic of cholera. 1st. Because found 

 in chronic diarrhoea, in typhus and dysentery, and other affections of the digestive canal. 2d. 

 Not always fofind, in the algid period, at least, in such degree as to be regarded as the principal 

 alteration of the mucous membrane of the intestines ; and, 3d. When the exfoliation of the epi- 

 thelium by the choleraic process has taken place, even to a considerable extent , this alteration 

 is probably not primitive, but more a consecutive state, depending upon the dissolving and 

 maceration of the villosities in the choleraic liquid. 



Fig. 22. The fatty globules on the liver are agglomerated, are of different sizes, and spread here 

 and there in little clusters among the cellules of the liver, which also contain a greater number 

 of the latty globules than in the normal state. 



t The specific gravity of the urine rose with the charge of albumen and excess of urea, from 

 1021 (urea 1,71 per cent) to 1084 (urea §.47 per cent), in which last case, that of a cow slaughtered 

 on third or fourth day of disease, which had suffered great dyspnoea during life and showed most 

 marked pulmonary emphysema after death, on the addition of nitric acid to the urine, and with- 

 out concentrating, a large amount of nitrate of urea separated out. (Cattle Plague, p. 78.) 



