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In the most advanced stages the symptoms are very charac- 

 teristic. The subject is miserably thin and wastes visibly from 

 day to day, the hair is dry and erect, most marked along the 

 spine, the skin is scurfy, rigid, lousy, and clings firmly to the 

 bones, the eyes are pale, deeply sunken in their sockets and . 

 bleary, the tears running over the cheeks, while a yellowish, 

 granular, foetid, and often gritty discharge flows from the nose, 

 and dries in masses around the alse. The cough is weak, painful, 

 paroxysmal, and easily roused by pinching the back or breast or 

 percussing the ribs. The breathing is liable to be hurried, even 

 panting, and the animal may stand most of its time with nose ex- 

 tended to obviate the oppression that comes of recumbency. All 

 the visible mucosae are pale and blanched, and the pulse weak 

 and rapid with every indication of anaemia. The temperature is 

 usually raised to 104° or 105° F. and the milk secretion is com- 

 pletely arrested. Indications of generalized tuberculosis become 

 more marked in the enlarged glands, diarrhoea, and clouded 

 (purulent), or blood stained urine with microscopic casts, and 

 even anasarca. The morbid sounds in the lungs have become a 

 complex variety according to the jiature of the lesion, blowing, 

 wheezing, amphoric, friction, creaking, mucous, with the other 

 bruits conveyed from adjacent organs. Death usually occurs in 

 a state of complete marasmus, after months or years of illness. 



Tuberculosis of the Abdomen. This usually affects the intes- 

 tines, mesenteric glands, peritoneum, liver, spleen and pancreas, 

 and has been known as tabes mesetiterica. The generative organs 

 also occasionally suffer, in which case, an early and rather per- 

 sistent symptom is sterility, with a too frequent or it may be per- 

 sistent desire for the bull (nymphomania). There is u-sually a 

 steady loss of condition in spite of good feeding, the impaired 

 functions of the intestinal mucosa, but especially of the mesenteric 

 glands, liver and pancreas, interfering seriously with absorption 

 and assimilation. The victims are therefore known as piners. 

 While there may be more or less fever, highest in the evening, 

 this is by no means marked, and cough and respiratory trouble 

 may be entirely absent. Indications are not lacking, however, 

 of digestive trouble. Slight tympany may follow meals, and the 

 bowels are irregular, costiveness alternating with diarrhoea. If 

 heavy feeding is resorted to, diarrhoea is the usual result, accom- 



