Ißg Literatiubericht. 



1. A greatly increased temperature of the body and the 

 blood is an indubitable and most trustworthy symptom of this 

 disease, for it is the first symptom discoverable; it is excessive 

 and extraordinary in degree, and it marks this disease as a 

 pestilential fever. 



2. Upon opening the animal the mu^ular tissue is seen 

 of a dark red color ; the fat is of a deep brown yellow, having 

 in intense cases a green bronzed tinge. 



3. The spleen is found enlarged, more or less engorged 

 with dark colored blood, softened, frequently to a pulpy mass. 



4. The abomasum, or fourth stomach, upon its inner tubu- 

 lar pyloric portion invariably presents sloughs, erosions and deep 

 excavated ulcers of various forms and extent. There is usually 

 accompanying these, more or less inflammatory appearances of 

 the larger and more vascular portion of the stomach (gastritis^ 

 The ulcerations, or rather the peculiarities, that were found in 

 the tubular portion of the rennet or fourth stomach, at the base 

 of the longitudinal folds in that stomach, finally appeared to be 

 a surer guide to recognition of the disease than was the mere 

 appearance and size of the spleen or the liver; the absolute 

 tests by the minute examination of the liver, bile and spleen- 

 pulp by the microscopist, being of course preferred to all other 

 kinds of evidence. Yet to the practiced eye, these ulcerations, 

 sloughs and erosions served as trustworthy guides in deciding 

 the nature of any case in which, for the moment, the other kinds 

 of evidence were not accessible. 



5. Kidneys generally enlarged, darker in color than nor- 

 mal, congested with blood, and the cortical substance usually 

 softened. 



6. The liver enlarged, increased in weight, generally fatty 

 or waxy, its bile ducts and radicals fully injected with bile, its 

 color changed to a yellowish brown. 



7. The gall bladder filled with a dark, thick, tarry or 

 flacky bile. 



8. The bladder distended with dark, bloody urine. 



9. Te intestinal canal in its various portions, the ileum, 

 caecum and rectum , frequently presenting congested vessels 

 under its mucous coat, its epithelium softened and easily scraped 

 off with the finger. 



