History of Animal Plagues. 489 



sometimes accompanied by a multitude of small worms {lumlrici); 



the urine was abundant, turbid, yellow, and stinking 



Not only was the difficulty in swallowing very slight, but, as has 

 been said, the obstruction to the respiration did not produce 

 much injury; compression of the upper part of the windpipe by 

 the hand did not make the animal evince any pain, neither did 

 it make it cough ; in a word, if the opening of the dead bodies had 

 not shown the seat of the disease, there would not have been the 

 slightest suspicion of strangles, or that which has been named by 

 veterinary surgeons esquinancy [angina). A post-mortem ex- 

 amination then showed that the fauces, — that is to say, the ton- 

 sils, and from thence to the soft palate, and all around the pillars 

 and the chief parts of the pharynx, to the openings of the eus- 

 tachian tubes — were of a black colour similar to soot, and truly 

 sphacelous ; where this sphacelated appearance terminated there 

 began a soaked condition of the membranes, which were filled 

 with a yellow gelatinous substance, occupying the soft palate 

 and the cellular tissue of the circumjacent parts, and extending 

 a long way on the exterior of the trachea and the oesophagus. 

 The pituitary membrane lining the air-passages of the nostrils was 

 black and gangrenous ; minor lesions were commonly met with in 

 the larynx, but not in its ventricles ; within the canal of the trachea 

 there was at times a small quantity of viscid mucus in a frothy 

 state, which also was noticed in the lungs and the bronchia?/' 



A curions epizooty was noticed in Germany ; cows and breed- 

 ino; sows aborted in lar<2"e numbers.^ 



In Hanover there was an epizooty among geese. Diarrhoea 

 was the most prevalent symptom during life. The appearances 

 after death were as follows : ' The stomach and intestines were 

 much inflamed, and the gall-bladder was full of a dark-green 

 and stinking bile. In the intestines were found many polypi 

 formed by the aggregation of small coagula of Ivmph, some of 

 them half an ell long, the thickness of a finger, and of a brown- 

 'sh-rcd colour. In the rectum was a quantity of white excre- 

 ment which had a most oflensive odour.' ^ 



' G. nru^none. Storia clclla Squinanzia Cancrenosa, &c. Turin, 1777. 



^ Cluihcrt. Instructions, &c. 



3 Ruling. Med. Bcschrcibung dcr Sladt Northcim. 



