2,72, History of Animal Plagues. 



seven days. Many of the cows I have seen have a wild stare 

 with their eyes; the whites of the eye and the skin of the eyeUds 

 looked yellowish; their tongues looked white; they had an 

 extraordinary heat in their mouths, at the roots of their horns 

 (a place where they usually feel to judge of the heat of cattle), 

 or in the axilla, or armpit, if I may so call it. The mucus run- 

 ning from their nose is very thick and ropy; their milk is thick 

 and yellow. In the two I have seen opened, the flesh and blood 

 looked much darker-coloured than usual. The fat of the first 

 looked yellow; the lungs were much inflamed in many places, and 

 had several large blisters, two or three inches over, full of water 

 on their outward surface; there was no water in the thorax, 

 little or none in the pericardium. The heart looked well, but 

 the blood in it was not at all clotted, being exceedingly fluid 

 and dark-coloured ; the paunch was very full of food and greatly 

 distended ; the stomach looked well ; the liv^er was full of 

 schirrous swellings and chalky knobs ; the gall-bladder bigger 

 than usual ; the gall fluid, but dark-coloured ; the intestines 

 inflamed in many places; the fat about the kidneys was dis- 

 tended with air ; the kidneys were sound, as was the bladder 

 and uterus. This cow was not with calf. On opening the skull 

 there was much water gushed out. In the second cow the fat 

 was not yellow; the lungs, heart, and stomach were like the 

 former; the liver was pale, flabby, not schirrous, but the gall- 

 bladder was very large ; the intestines inflamed, and in some 

 places livid ; the fat of the kidneys in this was sound, but one 

 of the kidneys was mortified. This cow was about a month gone 

 with calf. The man who skinned and opened these cows said 

 these were the general appearances in most he had skinned ; 

 only that in some he found water in the cells of the cores of the 

 horns. They skin off the hide, which they say is good to tan, 

 and they save the fat to make tallow of. The skinner told me 

 that a poor man made a hearty meal of some stakes he cut off 

 one of those cows, and that he was not sick with it (I am assured 

 that a very sufficient experiment was made in our army in Flan- 

 ders last campaign in favour of this). 



' From these circumstances I think it evident that this dis- 

 temper begins by an inflammation of the lungs, attended with a 



