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nose, or month. Other cases show symptoms of pneumonia with 

 pleurisy — difficult, hurried, and joainful res])iration and fever. 

 Calves frecjuently have this type of the disease. Some cases 

 show abdominal pain, high fever, and abnormal movements ; 

 and their attitudes indicate abdominal discomfort. In the 

 writer's experience, the temperatures have been either normal 

 or subnormal except where they rose rapidly just before death 

 occurred. 



Local changes which correspond to the swellings of anthrax 



Fig. 60. — HEiMOrrhagic Septicemia. {M. E. E.) 

 Meningeal type. Cow stupid. Early stage. 



and sj^mptomatic anthrax are occasionally present; usually, 

 however, tliev ai'e either limited or else wanting. 



The urine in some cases is scanty or l)h)od-stained, and this is 

 also true of the l)owel discharges. 



Many cases of hemorrhagic septicemia, particularly those oc- 

 curring in cattle, are of the meningeal, or nervous type. In this 

 type of the disease, some cases early sliow an extreme nervous 

 disturbance, while others develop such symptoms gradually. 

 Cows whii'h iiave given a normal flow of milk in the morning 

 may give practically none in the evening ; they are otherwise 

 apparently normal. There may be no rise of temperature; and 



