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are found lying free on the mucous membrane ; almost all 

 of them are attached to the masses or buried in them. The 

 smaller tubes, especially those leading to the diseased 

 portions of the lungs, are filled with a dirty brown fluid, 

 and on squeezing any portion of the organ quantities of it 

 can be expelled. 



" The bronchial glands are swollen and enlarged. 



" The spleen appears healthy. 



" The left kidney contains a large amount of blood ; other- 

 wise looks natural. Nothing unusual in the right one. 



" The stomach contains a few ounces of dark brown fluid ; 

 mucous membrane is pale. Large veins full. 



"The ditodenum contains a bile-stained mucus, and on 

 pressing the gall-bladder, bile flows from the papilla 

 biliaria. 



"fejimum and ileum contain a dirty black material 

 adhering to the mucous membrane. 



" One taenia elliptica and one ascaris marginata are found 

 in the jejunum. 



" Large bowel healthy. 



"Liver firm, dark red in colour, lobules indistinct, hepatic 

 veins full, gall-bladder contains a small amount of bile. 

 There is a clot in the portal vein. 



" Brain. — Nothing abnormal about the membranes. Sub- 

 stance of good consistence and apparently healthy. 



"In the following cases I have condensed the original 

 account. 



" Case 2. — A five months old dog pup, which had been 

 ill a week. 



" Extensive pneumonic consolidation of the lungs, invol- 

 ving the lower part of the anterior lobe, and scattered patches 

 in the middle lobe on the left side, and half the posterior lobe 

 on the right. On section the solidified parts presented the 

 appearance already described in the preceding case, and the 

 unaffected portions are in a state of engorgement. On 

 slitting up the trachea and bronchial tubes much frothy 



