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killed in prime condition, and I have seen them in parturi- 

 tion fever, which is always attributed to plethora. There is 

 some dulness, loss of vivacity, tenderness of the withers, 

 back, and loins, and of the walls of the chest, occasional dry- 

 ness of the nose, heat of the horns and ears, want of pliancy 

 in the skin, slightly increased temperature (one hundred and 

 two degrees), weak, accelerated pulse, mawkish breath, 

 stitfness of the limbs, wandering perhaps from one to another, 

 slight, infrequent, dry cough, and blue, watery milk, often 

 abundant, but with cheesy matter, fat, and sugar decreased 

 and soda and potassa in excess. The lymphatic glands 

 about the throat are often manifestly enlarged. Swellings 

 of the joints may appear, or a murmur harsher than natural 

 may be heard over the lower end of the windpipe or in the 

 chest. With deposits in the abdomen and especially in or 

 near the ovaries of cows the desire for the male is often con- 

 stant {fjullers), though conception and the completion of 

 gestation are usually impossiI)le. Working oxen are easily 

 overdone and become visibly emaciated from day to day. 

 As the disease advances the eyes sink in their sockets and 

 lose all animation ; the skin is hidebound, harsh, dry and 

 scurfy ; the hair dull, dry and erect ; the membranes of the 

 eyes, nose, and mouth of a pale, yellow, bloodless aspect, 

 though often streaked with pink vessels ; a whitish discharge 

 often takes place from the nose, and with it an increased 

 repulsiveness and often distinct foetor of the breath ; if the 

 bowels are involved scouring is common, and if the bones, 

 swelling and lameness increase. Exhaustion with profuse 

 perspiration and labored breathing occur on the slightest 

 exertion, the a})petite fails, tympany follows each meal, and 

 the milk is at once poorer and lessened in quantity. The 

 cough increases, becomes rattling, the discharge profuse, 

 fetid, mixed with cheesy-like or chalky particles, crepitating, 

 wheezing, gurgling and other abnormal noises are heard in 

 the chest, and percussion shows dulness in particular parts 

 with wincing. All of the symptoms become steadily aggra- 

 vated, and the animal usually perishes from the difficulty of 

 respiration or the profuse fetid diarrhoei. Jn cases attecting 

 the bones, the patient may be unable to stand, and the bony 

 prominences may make their way through the skin or even 



