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the position for urination or defecation, and there is more or less 

 detention of urine or faeces, the latter being dry, moulded, covered 

 with mucus and of a reddish yellow color. The sphincter ani is 

 dilated. After a time the urine escapes in fine jets, so small 

 that in the absence of stretching to urinate, or raising of the 

 tail, they are easily overlooked. 



The urine may be normally clear, or dark colored, albuminous or 

 bloody. The penis hangs out of the sheath several inches 

 farther than in health. 



Appetite is sometimes impaired, or completely lost, though 

 usually the patient eats and drinks to the last, but without proper 

 digestion or assimilation. It does not check the advance of ma- 

 rasmus. Thirst often becomes excessive and in such cases, there 

 is diuresis together with frequent and excessive rumbling of the 

 bowels. The loins are very sensitive to pinching. 



About sixty to seventy per cent, in different outbreaks show 

 oedema, in the epigastric region it may be six inches in diameter, 

 or it may extend from the sternum back so as to include the ab- 

 domen, sheath, or mammae, and perineum, and even the hind 

 limbs. Considerable serous oozing takes place from this for four 

 or five days, after which it dries up. 



In about seven to fourteen per cent, the head became cedema- 

 tous and swollen, with an abundant foetid purulent discharge from 

 the nose arid eyes, and extensive ulceration of the pituita and 

 conjunctiva. Such cases became completely blind prior to death. 

 In other cases extensive ulceration of the skin sets in with the 

 formation of most repulsive sores. 



The nervous symptoms assume various forms ; in some there 

 is stupor with head resting on the ground ; in others extreme 

 debility and paraplegia with phenomenally rapid emaciation ; 

 in a few hemiplegia, or even delirium is shown ; in all there is a 

 marked paresis of the digestive organs and especially impairment 

 of peristalsis. The blood is deficient in red globules and rich in 

 leucocytes (lymphocytes and eosinophiles. 



The most constant symptoms appear to be dyspnoea under 

 exercise, paresis of the hind limbs and intestines, genital atony, a 

 wonderfully rapid and extreme emaciation, oedema, and a tend- 

 ency to impaired nutrition or ulcerous degenerations of the pituita, 

 conjunctiva or skin. 



