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the immediate vicinity. Tlicre was also adhesion of the left lung. 

 All the other organs appeared healthy ; the uterus was empty. 



The next killed was No. 3, Maine cow. All the viscera, l:)otli 

 thoracic and ahdominal were healthy ; the uterus contained a 

 well developed foetus. 



The No. 4 Maine cow had a small portion of the pulmonary 

 adherent to the costal pleura ; the lungs were healthy, as were 

 all the other organs ; the uterus contained a foetus not more 

 than four weeks old. 



No. 1, Weston cow. — The superior part of the large lobe of 

 the left lung was adherent to the ribs and to the vertebra?, and 

 in the lung was a cyst containing a mass about three inches in 

 length, and two in breadth. Otherwise, the organs were per- 

 fectly healthy. The uterus contained a foetus about two 

 months old. 



All the organs of the bull and calf were healthy. 



Two of the three cows OAvned by Avery Whiting, one of which 

 was attacked by the disease in the latter part of April, the other 

 the 22d of June were sent to ^my place in West Newton on the 

 31st of July. The first mentioned calved a few days previous 

 to the attack, and on the 24th of June, when I first saw her, 

 had a good appetite, and gave about seven quarts of milk per 

 day, was thin of flesh, and coughed frequently. 



The other showed the first symptoms of illness on the 22d of 

 June, previous to which she gave three gallons of milk per day, 

 and was in good flesh. On the 24tli of June she presented the 

 following symptoms : 



The pulse was eighty per minute, small and wiry ; respiration 

 thirty, short and apparently painful ; the coat stared ; the eyes 

 were dull ; and considerable saliva flowed from the mouth. By 

 percussion, a dull, flat sound was emitted on both sides of the 

 thorax. The appetite was entirely lost. Occasional visits wefe 

 made. No material change in the symptoms appeared until the 

 13th of July, when the appetite began to improve. 



Her condition, August 1st, was little better than a living 

 skeleton ; the hair stood out and had an unhealthy appearance ; 

 she coughed almost incessently Both night and day ; the secre- 

 tion of milk was lost, and with the best of food for producing 

 milk, — green grass and sweet corn fodder, — not over half a pint 

 a day could be drawn. 



