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not quite certain. It might have taken the disease later, from 

 some newly diseased animal in Roland F. Doane's herd. 



Autopsy 28. — The Chenery heifer, killed at Roland F. Doane's. The 

 following is the record : " In the posterior lobe of the riglit hmg was a 

 large spot of emidiysema, a portion of the lung carnificd. Over the 

 wliole posterior lobe a mottled appearance, showing traces of chronic 

 disease. The under surface of the lung was very much discolored. 

 Found exudation into the parenchyma and air-cells. The connecting 

 tissue of the lung thickened as in other cases. The left lung in the same 

 general condition." — Drs. Tyler and Dadd, May 3, 1860. 



This animal may have had tlie disease, l)ut the description is 

 so vague that it is not quite certain that " carnified" "mottled," 

 " discolored " " exudation into air-cells," do not mean the 

 same thing, viz. : a want of free emptying of the blood vessels, 

 or in common language, settling of the blood in the lungs, 

 which is not a disease. " Emphysema " is no part of pleuro- 

 pneumonia. It exists in many otherwise well lungs. The 

 cellular " tissue " in cattle is much thicker in health tlian in 

 man. 



Of the remainder of Curtis Stoddard's herd, the following 

 disposition was made : — 



Seven animals went into his fatlier's herd, three to Osborn 

 Whiting's, one to J. Shay, of North Brookfield, one to Moses 

 Pollard, of New Brain tree, one to Benjamin Cummings, of North 

 Brookfield, two to J. W. Tucker, of same place, one to Michael 

 or Dennis Murphy, ditto, and one to Avery Tucker, of North 

 Brookfield, from him to Richards, of West Brookfield, and from 

 him to Bowen, of Sturbridge. 



The seven animals first mentioned were slaughtered with 

 the others belonging to Curtis Stoddard's father, no separate 

 record of them being kept. The three which went to Osborn 

 Whiting's were also slaughtered with the rest of his herd, and 

 it is believed that the one animal examined belonged to these 

 three. The following report of the examination is taked from 

 the records : — 



Autopsy 29. — "The right lung was found to be very much enlarged." 

 " The left showed many spots of red hepatization both deep seated and 

 superficial." "The chest contained about a half a pint of serum." — Dr. 

 Dadd, April 24, 18G0. 



