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withstanding that Kolb attributes it to bacillus heemorrkagicus , 

 and Robert, Fabert, and Dinter found the exudates swarming 

 with diplococci. This may assimilate it to septicemia hcemorrhagica 



Lesions. In cattle killed during the early stages, circum- 

 scribed haemorrhages and petechise are found in the nose, trachea, 

 bronchia, gastric and intestinal mucosae, cerebral membranes, 

 pleurae, peritoneum, bladder, and skin. In many cases these are 

 accompanied by congestion and thickening of the walls of the 

 lymphatics, and effusion in and under the skin in different parts 

 of the body, but especially along its lower aspect — (belly, sternum, 

 dewlap, limbs, lower jaw, tongue) — of a gelatinoid exudate, 

 which raises the skin abruptly in the form of a thick cushion. At 

 first this is soft and tremulous, but later it may have coagulated 

 giving a great degree of resistance to the structure. Kxtensive 

 cracks, fissures, and sloughs, and unhealthy sores form on these 

 swellings. Franck especially notes the enlarged tongue gorged 

 with blood and yellowish exudate as in gloss- anthrax. The 

 blood extravasation may be further evidenced in the black or 

 blood-streaked faeces, the reddish urine, and a rosy tint of the 

 milk. 



Symptoms. The animal is dull, sluggish, moves stiffly and 

 with difiiculty, and shows hyperthermia, (102° to' 106° F.), in- 

 appetence, impaired or suspended rumination, heat of the roots 

 of the ears and horns, and of the dry muzzle ; the spine, and 

 usually certain points beneath the sternum or abdomen at which 

 swellings are about to appear, are tender to the touch. On the 

 affected parts of the skin the temperature is raised, and there 

 may be detected pea-like elevations which become surrounded 

 and enveloped in extensive swellings that pit on pressure. The 

 swellings show a preference for the thinner and looser parts of 

 the skin, and gravitate rapidl3' toward dependent parts. Thus, 

 the eyelids, roots of the ears, intermaxillary space, throat, muzzle, 

 dewlap, ventral aspect of the body, axilla, mammae, scrotum, 

 groin, thigh, knee and hock are favorite spots, the liquid rapidly 

 gravitating downward through the loose connective tissue to the 

 lowest points. The face becomes infiltrated to unsightly dimen- 

 sions, interrupting prehension and threatening suffocation, the 

 dewlap swells up to a great size, the forearms or thighs become 

 rounded and tense, and a thick pad forms along the ventral aspect 

 of the body. The white skin on such swellings becomes red, 



