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The Stomach is frequently the seat of inflammation of a marked 
character. 
The Intestines also reddened to more or less extent. The cavity 
of the peritoneum containing a citron-coloured fluid, reddened per- 
haps, the omentum being at times almost entirely destroyed. A 
liquid matter, a sort of bloody corruption of more or less consistence, 
is often found within the cavities of the small guts; and in those 
of the large — the csecum and colon in particular — are sometimes to 
be remarked red and black spots or ecchymoses ; buds of smaller 
or larger size ( glandes de Bruner) indistinctly planted over the 
mucous surface, &c. 
Malignant or Putrid Typhus. 
( Typhus Charhonneux.) 
These malignant or putrid affections, either constitutional, or, in 
some instances, but local in their origin, ever of a highly acute nature 
and of unequalled rapidity of progress, since mot infrequently 
they cause death in a few hours, are of the more consequence for 
us to become acquainted with, as they are not only susceptible 
of being communicated from one animal to another, but even from 
animal to man, in whom, losing none of their malignity, they are 
likewise most commonly mortal. 
Frequently sporadic, sometimes epizootic, but most commonly 
enzootic, these diseases at time assume so redoubtable a form 
that nothing can arrest their progress. Invading farms or other 
extensive localities, they produce therein terrific ravages. For, 
being susceptible under various forms, almost equally fatal one 
with another, of prostrating a vast number of animals of the same 
or different species, these affections determine, under varying cir- 
cumstances, losses which on occasions desolate and completely ruin 
the country where they have broken out. 
Such are the two especial forms of typhus fever which have 
been observed among horse kind ; one of which would seem to 
occur at times in practice without being sufficiently heeded or 
recognised by veterinary surgeons in this country; while the other 
may be said to comprehend those malignant epidemics by which 
our cattle, if not our horses, have of late years been too fearfully 
