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e. Alterations in the digestive organs, i. Injuries to the 

 tongue in one rabid dog. 2. Foreign bodies in the mouth 

 and throat of i rabid and i suspected. 3. Stomach empty- 

 in 19 rabid and i suspected. 4. Foreign matter in the 

 stomach — hair, wood, straw, grass, leaves, soil, cherry- 

 stones (and in one case a living horse-fly attached to the 

 mucous membrane) — in 56 rabid and 21 suspected. 5. 

 Foreign matter besides hair in intestines in 6 rabid and 3 

 suspected. 6. Blood in the stomach in 2 rabid. 7. Injec- 

 tion of the serous membrane of the stomach only in 43 

 rabid and 2 suspected. 8. Injection of serous membrane 

 of the stomach and intestines in 3 rabid and 3 suspected. 



9. Pallor of the gastric mucous membrane in i rabid . 



10. General redness of the same in 6 rabid. 11. Patchy 

 redness of the same in 2 rabid. 12. Hsemorrhagic erosions 

 and ulcers in the same in 40 rabid. 13. Marked yellowness 

 of the intestinal mucous membrane and contents of same, 

 in 4 rabid. 14. General redness, with tumefaction of the 

 intestinal mucous membrane and tape- worm, in 58 rabid 

 and 17 suspected. 15. Patchy redness of the mucous 

 membrane of the small intestines, particularly involving 

 Peyer's patches, in 27 rabid and 9 suspected. 16. Diver- 

 ticular formations in i rabid animal. 



/. Alterations in the urinary and generative organs. 

 I. Nephritis in one rabid and i suspected ; 2. Cystitis and 

 nephritis in i rabid ; 3. Pregnancy, about three weeks, in a 

 rabid bitch. 



g. Alterations in the locomotory apparatus probably due 

 to injury to the head, were discovered in 3 rabid and 13 

 suspected dogs. 



In the " Bericht iiber den Veterinarwesen in Sachsen," 

 for 1874, Professor Siedamgrotzky has a paper on 

 the pathological anatomy of rabies.* He remarks 

 that the peculiar expression of the rabid dog's physio- 



* From the " Veterinary Journal^" October, 1876. 



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