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or no attention, and very many animals exposed to the 
infection escape the disease altogether. 
YI. Symptoms. 
1st. The symptoms of khorah, or eczema epizootica, differ 
in no respect from those observed in Great Britain or else- 
where. I merely allude to the disease as it is sometimes 
confusedly described with gootee and puschima ; but no 
veterinary surgeon would hesitate in recognising its diagnostic 
vesicles on the tongue and coronets. In some of its out- 
breaks it has assumed a severe form, but it is by no means 
a fatal malady. 
2nd. Gootee, boshonto, or mata. The constitutional 
disturbance is serious and severe ; sometimes it is of a 
malignant type, the mortality excessive, when many animals 
succumb before the diagnostic eruption appears. More often 
its attack is comparatively mild. The period of incubation 
is probably short (from ten to fifteen days), but has not 
been satisfactorily determined. 
a. Premonitory symptoms. The animal is dull, listless, 
stands apart from the others, appetite diminishes, skin 
becomes dry and rough, lactation ceases. 
Prom two to four days later a shivering fit ushers in the 
second or febrile stage ; temperature becomes elevated, pulse 
and respiration accelerated, ears droop backwards, food is 
refused, rumination is suspended, thirst is marked, watery 
discharges from the eyes and nostrils, and slavering from the 
mouth (some observers have remarked swollen tongue, with 
pointed elevations, vesicles have been named. I noticed very 
small ulcers confined to the dorsum of the tongue), urine is 
high coloured, fseces firm and slimy, the general appearance 
is of severe sickness, head drooping, back up, flanks hollow, 
remain stationary, with eyes dull or bleared. 
Prom the fifth to the sixth day the third or eruptive stage 
sets in, it is usually preceded by one day’s diarrhoea, which 
consists of broken-up slimy evacuations, becoming mixed 
during the next few days with serum, mucous, and sanguin- 
eous discharges, which have been described “as brownish- 
black,” as “watery, and very offensive,” and after four or 
five days is dysenteric. 
The eruption is variously described as “essentially vesi- 
cular,” “ eruption of dry pustules,” “ vesicles which subse- 
quently maturate,” “pimples or scabs; and by Dr. McLeod 
“ as consisting of small black or light yellow crusts, set in 
small ulcers, and surrounded by a ring of redness.” 
The extent of the eruption and size of the crusts vary in 
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