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of fome Branch of the coronary Artery, caufed by 
the extraordinary Accumulation of Blood in the 
right Ventricle 5 for the Vena cava , and right Ven- 
tricle of the Heart, were turgid, and full of black 
coagulated Blood, tho’ this Cow had been dead but 
12 or 14 Hours; the Lungs were likewife turgid 
with Blood, but little or none was found in the left 
Ventricle or Aorta ; the Obftruftion feemed to have 
been fo great in the Lungs, that very little Blood 
could pafs thro 5 them from the right to the left Ven- 
tricle of the Heart, and therefore evidently evinces 
the Exiftence of a confirmed Peripneumony. All the 
Membranes lining the Noftrils, and the fpongy Bones 
thereof, were quite turgid with Blood, and in the 
higheft State of Inflammation. The greater and lefler 
Brain looked fair and well, Teeming no way dis- 
temper'd. 
I have not Teen, in any Cows I have examined, 
any cutaneous Sores or Exulcerations, nothing like 
the Boils, Carbuncles, &c. defcribed by Authors as 
the conflant Concomitants of the Plague in Men : Nor 
does there Teem to be any Attempt of Nature to 
fling off the Diftemper by any internal Impoflumation, 
or Difcharge, unlefs by the Running at the Nofe, 
and by the bilious Stools, or bilious Urine. The few, 
which have recovered, have been Tuch as have been 
kept within Doors very warm, have been blooded 
once, twice, or oftener, have had warm Mafhes of 
Malt and Bran given them, and warm Drenches of 
warm Herbs, Tuch as RoTcmary, Wormwood, and 
Ground-Ivy, with Honey or Treacle, and have nei- 
ther purged at all, or but little; and when they have 
not 
