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is, however, but little alteration in the breathing, and even in 
what may be called the second stage of the disease, there are 
but few indications of the animal being affected with a fatal 
malady. In the second stage of the disease also, a discharge 
of mucus comes from the nostrils, accompanied with flocculi 
of lymph, and a similar discharge from the eyes, but the 
eyes look bright. In the course of the second day, when 
the disease is running rapidly on, diarrhoea sets in. This 
diarrhoea is in a short space of time succeeded by dysentery. 
The pulse now becomes more rapid and indistinct, the 
animal drags out a miserable kind of existence, loathing all 
food, constantly purging, occasionally coughing, and fre- 
quently moaning and grinding its teeth for three or four 
days, when it dies from prostration of the vital powers. 
187. Is it similar to any disease known in this country? — 
We have no disease like it. 
J88. Were you sufficiently long in Galicia to see the 
whole phases of the disease, and to determine on its treat- 
ment ! — I was sufficiently long to watch the disease from its 
commencement to its termination, and as there were some 
difficulties in the way of seeing the progress of the disease 
throughout, in consequence of the severity of the Govern- 
ment measures in force, I deemed it prudent to make the 
first animal that was taken with the disease the property of 
the three societies that I had the honour of representing, by 
purchasing it, which enabled me to study the affection in 
that individual case from its commencement to its termina- 
tion. A second case occurred on the following day, and I 
dealt with it in precisely the same way. Subsequently I had 
many opportunities of observing other cases both in the 
latter stages of the disease, as also in the first. I have thus 
had every opportunity of becoming practically acquainted 
with its nature. 
189. How many animals did you see afflicted with that 
disease ? — About a dozen altogether. 
190. Did any of those recover? — Not any; but we saw 
three animals which had recovered before our arrival, and a 
number of others were still in quarantine that had been 
exposed to the affection, but most of those animals were 
killed before we left Galicia. 
191. Were they killed at a diminished price from what 
they would have sold at if sound animals? — They were; but 
not at a greatly diminished price. 
192. Did you make a post mortem examination of those 
animals? — I made a post mortem examination of every animal 
that died of the disease, and likewise of every one that had 
been exposed to the contagion. 
