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cell is found to be swollen, the cell is granular and stains poorly; 

 the nucleus of the cell is pushed to one side and broken up into 

 fragments. 



Other Lymphatic Glands Involved. — These glands, which are 

 exposed with the incision from the axilla to the angle of the jaw, 

 are only a small part of the entire glandular system, and we will 

 find, as we proceed further with the postmortem examination, that 

 practically all the important l3rmphatic glands are similarly in- 

 volved. 



Inguinal Glands. — If we next make an incision through the 

 skin in the fold of the groin, we will expose a chain of superficial 

 lymphatic glands — the superficial inguinal glands — and these 

 also will usually be found to be markedly involved in the pathologic 

 process. Here the changes are practically the same as in the cer- 

 vical glands just described, consisting in the appearance of hemor- 

 rhagic spots throughout the gland, 

 accompanied by marked swelling 

 and softening of the structure of 

 the gland. 



Mesenteric Glands. — When we 

 open the abdominal cavity and 

 take out the intestines we will 

 find in the mesenteric chain of 

 lymph-glands, located in the fat 

 just above the coils of small in- 

 testine, a marked hemorrhagic ap- 

 pearance, due to the same series 

 of changes just described under 

 the cervical and submaxillary 

 glands. 



Sublmnhar Glands. — Buried in 

 the fat in the sublumbar region or 



loin we find another chain of lymphatic glands, several in num- 

 ber, on each side. These are easily exposed from the inner surface 

 by an incision into the fat, and they are also found to share in the 

 disease changes and are spotted with hemorrhage. 



Precrural Lymph-gland. — Incision on the inner face of the 

 hams reveals, buried in the fat in front of the ham, a large lymph- 



Fig. 44. — Swollen and congested 

 mesenteric lymph-glands seen in 

 hog-cholera (H. K. Mulford Co.). 



