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suffering agony in feet or limbs. In a short period of time the 

 limbs begin to swell, more particularly about the lower joinis, 

 i.e., the hocks and knees downwards, and as the swellings 

 become pronounced the pain disappears. 



Fig. 21. — Microbes in groups. x SOO. 

 (New Veterinary College Museum. 



As already stated, there is usually a cough and some degree 

 of roughness of the throat and bronchial tubes, but in the last 

 outbreak in Edinburgh these were conspicuous by their absence. 



In some instances intestinal pain, expressed by restlessness, 

 looking round at the flanks, scraping with the feet, and even 

 rolling about, is present shortly after the first manifestation of 

 illness ; and in others — and these are the really dangerously 

 fatal ones — well-marked signs of inflammation of the bowels 

 are observable at an early stage, with intermittent action of the 

 heart and total loss of appetite, or even extreme abhorrence of 

 food, and occasionally of water. 



The bowels are at first normal or slightly constipated; the 

 faeces covered with mucus (hence the terms typhus-mucosa and 

 muco-enteritis), and their colour frequently indicates an absence 

 of biliary secretion or the presence of altered bile ; the rectum 



