34 Hallier, 
as a complication or a full development of the original affection. 
is open to question. Our English form rarely assumes this ag- 
gravated type, and seems quite wanting in the malignant proper- 
ties. of carbuncular fevers, having, moreover, no specific virus like 
these latter. I ought to add, however, that in those European cases 
that prove so fatal, the autopsy shows points of resemblance to the 
Texas fever. Hering says there is „inflammation and petechial 
patches in the stomach and intestines, the ingesta is dried, the 
mucous membrane oedematous, the liver and spleen enlarged, so- 
metimes even to rupture; the gall bladder distended, the kidneys 
contracted, a turbid effusion in the thorax, inflammation and pe- 
techiae in the pulmonary organs, and a jelly-like effusion into 
the cellular tissue.“ 
The accounts, however, are too meagre, and as you will no- 
tice, the means available in the present day have not been brought 
into requisition in the case of these diseases, so as to furnish 
data sufficiently numerous and accurate for purposes of com- 
parison. 
I have already mentioned to you the general similarity of 
the Texas fever and the carbuncular fevers of Europe. I mentio- 
ned that one great distinguishing feature of the former was the 
absence of bacteria in the blood, though as these have been 
found in the blood of animals suffering from influenza and 
other affections, attended with a typhus diathesis, their presence 
is probably not an essential condition of the disease. What 
leads me to make special reference to this again, is the sta- 
tement by Davaine, in his communication read before the Aca- 
demie de Medecine (July 27 th. 1850), that in addition to bacte- 
ria, the blood of anthrax patients contained special globular elements. 
„Globules of a peculiar kind,“ are sometimes found; they are re- 
gularly rounded off, and larger than the normal white globules of 
which they have the appearance*). They are united in small lu- 
sters in great abundance, and are composed of an outer cell of 
a bulbous appearance, reflecting in some a violet tint. In the 
center of this cell there are found several nuclei, the double out- 
line of which is well marked. In some these nuclei have degene- 
rated into the sandy or granulous form, peculiar to the nuclei 
*) Diese Beschreibung passt freilich durchaus nicht auf den Parasiten 
der Texas-Rinderpest. 
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