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will rarely succeed in doing so. When standing the back is 

 arched, the legs stiff and rigid, but the standing posture is 

 not long maintained. The animal looks towards its flank, 

 falls into convulsions, and expels without much effort soft and 

 bloody matter by the anus The respiration is pant- 

 ing and plaintive, there is tympanitis of the abdomen ; the 

 tongue is bluish red, and the mouth filled with mucus ; blood 

 escapes from the nose] the eyes are sunk in their orbits, and 

 tears flow over the cheeks. The areolar tissue of the back 

 and sides becomes crepitous to the touch, and the animal 

 dies during a convulsive exacerbation, or during the succeed- 

 ing calmness. In some animals the excitement is so great 

 it is dangerous to go near them. The rapidity with which 

 the symptoms succeed each other is variable, death taking 

 place in the space of from a few minutes to twenty hours. 



"In cattle above two years old, particularly milch cows, 

 the local lesions are often confined to great congestion of the 

 spleen, and to a lesser extent of the liver and mucous mem- 

 brane of the intestinal canal. In other, but rarer instances, 

 the engorgement may be in the lungs, and should the animal 

 survive for some days, decomposition of the extravasated 

 blood is established, as expressed by fcetor of the breath ; 

 the decomposed extravasated blood being absorbed into the 

 circulation, causing death by septicaemia. 



"If, however, the disease is not so rapid in its course, it 

 may be noticed that there are various alterations in the symp- 

 toms ; in some instances an animal will be unwell for several 

 days, suffering from a remittent fever ; one day very ill, 

 with rapid, feeble pulse, hurried and painful breathing, red 

 and injected eyes, hot mouth, irregularity of the bowels, and 

 redness of the urine. After continuing for some hours these 

 symptoms may subside, and the animal commence to eat and 

 ruminate. The febrile symptoms, however, often return, and 

 in the end the sufferer too often succumbs. 



