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be scrofulous disease of the walls of the intestines^ or of 

 the uterus or vagina. In these cases characteristic lesions 

 are to be found on slitting open the organs, and during 

 life there is, in the one case, a discharge of purulent 

 material with the watery faeces, in the other a continuous 

 escape of muco-purulent matter from the vulva, constituting 

 scrofulous leucorrhoea. Cases of tabes, and scrofulous 

 ulcers of the intestinal canal and the generative organs, 

 are generally protracted, and death results from ansemia. 



Tubercular Meningitis has also been observed in cattle. 

 The pia mater is the seat of tubercle. The disease may 

 make considerable progress before any signs of ill health 

 are manifested. Suddenly the symptoms of pressure of the 

 brain occur, due to products of the inflammation induced, 

 or to the increased size of the tumours. This leads to 

 apoplectic symptoms, so that our diagnosis must be based 

 on the pedigree and scrofulous diathesis of the patient. 



Arthritis is a frequent manifestation of scrofula in young 

 stock. It must be distinguished from the rheumatic 

 disease of these organs by the fact that it appears less 

 suddenly, is less acute, does not lead to false anchylosis, 

 and more extensively involves the neighbouring bones. 

 Also the tendency is to softening rather than hardening of 

 the diseased parts, and when the tuberculous matter under- 

 goes the softening change abscesses form and lead deeply, 

 not only into the cavity of the joint, but into the enlarged 

 extremities of the bones which are the main seat of scrofu- 

 lous deposition; On post-mortem examination the disease 

 cannot be confounded with rheumatic arthritis, for there is 

 a total absence of porcellaneous deposit and of calcification 

 of surrounding ligaments, while the enlarged extremities of 

 the bones contain tubercular matter. The knee and stifle 

 seem to be most frequently affected, and when the joints 

 of the foot are involved we have scrofulous ^' foul.''^ 



Scrofulous Tumours— (" Wens " seem to be scrofu- 

 lous tumours of the skin) — also known as '^ Clyers,^^ occur 

 frequently in various parts of the body, especially affecting 

 those parts which have lymphatic glands situated in them ; 

 thus, in the parotid and superior pharyngeal region they may 



