SELECT COMMITTEE ON CONTAGIOUS DISEASES BILL. 37 
]93. What were the internal appearances? — The internal 
appearances will depend very considerably on the stage of 
the disease when the animal is slaughtered. I will state 
the post mortem i appearance of an animal that died of the 
affection. The root of the tongue was found to have its 
follicles, minute cut de sacs , filled with lymph, and the back 
of the mouth, and velum, were in a similar condition, with 
here and there a commencement of ulceration. The ulcers, 
however, were exceedingly small, not larger than the half of 
a small pea. The mucous membrane at the back part of the 
nostrils, where the mouth and the nostrils communicate, was 
in a similar condition to the velum and the root of the 
tongue. The oesophagus was free from disease. The first 
stomach also free from disease, as were the second and 
third stomachs. This stomach we found as a general rule, 
to be free from any disease of its structure, but occasionally 
its contents were much hardened, and so friable as easily to 
be rubbed to powder between the fingers. I allude to this 
circumstance, from the fact that it has been supposed by 
many Austrian authorities that the third stomach is inva- 
riably diseased, and they look upon it, consecpiently, to be 
so special a change, that in the event of the organ being 
found in a healthy state, they doubt whether the animal was 
the subject of the malady. I, however, demonstrated to 
those who were with me, that this stomach was not unfre- 
quently perfectly healthy, and its contents of a normal- 
consistence. The disease has been named Loser durre , from 
that circumstance, which would signify a hardness of the 
contents of the third stomach. The abomasum, or fourth 
stomach, had its mucous membrane highly congested, more 
especially towards the pylorus ; and in this part the 
follicles of the stomach were filled with effused lymph, giving 
an appearance to the membrane of being dotted over with 
yellow spots. The duodenum, jejunum and ileum were 
similarly affected in different parts of their course. The so- 
called Peyeffs glands, which are freely distributed in the 
small intestines, were in some places concealed from view by 
the effusions of lymph which covered them, in others they 
were tinged with blood. The chief ravages, however, in the 
case I am describing, were met with in the large intestines, 
and in the ccecum and colon in particular. Towards the 
blind end of the coecutn ulcerations of the mucous membrane 
were existing; they were however neither very extensive in 
size nor in depth. In some places the ulcers were in a 
healing condition. The general surface of the mucous mem- 
brane was thickly beset with deposits of lymph, forming 
