136 THE DISEASES OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 



The organs of respiration are in many cases healthy. 



The mouth, pharynx, and oesophagus are always healthy. The 

 rumen is generally found full of food and its coats healthy. 



The reticulum has often been found the seat of red imbibi- 

 tions. 



The omasum is almost invariably in a healthy condition. 



The abomasum, on the contrary, is almost always the seat of dis- 

 tinct and pathognomonic changes. It is often found of a pink or 

 dark-red color. The pyloric end is more commonly of a natural 

 color. Minute ecchymoses are frequently to be seen studding its 

 surface. Erosions of the epithelium are common. The duodenum 

 is often of a deep-red color ; sometimes its mucosa is deeply tinged 

 with bile ; ecchymoses are frequently met with. 



The jejunum is frequently reddened, and circumscribed haemor- 

 rhagic centres are often to be seen. The caecum is often the seat of 

 extensive ecchymoses ; in the colon the same. The rectum is often 

 the seat of extensive hcemorrhages ; the liver of fatty degeneration, 

 congested, and heavy. 



(I will here state the gall-ducts are filled with gall, and that the 

 microscopic examination of the liver often reveals a most beautiful 

 condition of natural injection of the gall-capillaries, though no micro- 

 scopical examination of tissues or organs seems to have been made 

 in this report.) 



Tlie gall-bladder is usually found distended and filled with a 

 viscid fluid. 



The spleen is uniformly enlarged, and weighs from two to ten 

 pounds. Its pulp is soft and degenerated, and oozes over the cut 

 sm'face. The kidneys are perfectly healthy (?), but are most com- 

 monly of a dark brown-red color from intense congestion. 



In the majority of cases the bladder is found filled with bloody 

 urine. 



'No marked changes are found in the nervous system, except in 

 those cases where paresis exists, when haemorrhages may be seen 

 in the cord of the lumbar region of varying extent. The dura and 

 pia are sometimes the seat of ecchymoses of variable extent. 



Microscopic lamination. 



As we have said, no microscopical examination of the tissues or 

 organs appears to have been made. Neither germs nor anything 

 abnormal seems to have been found in the blood ; but I am entirely 

 dissatisfied with this part of the report. 



Treatment appears to be useless, yet quinine in large doses and 



