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scabs of a dirty yellow colour. Many of these covered 
perfectly healthy structure, others healing surfaces, and a 
few ulcerative sores. The rectum was similarly, but less 
extensively diseased. The serous surface of the intestines 
was free from disease, but in places it had a bluish appear- 
ance, arising from the congested state of the vessels of the 
mucous membrane being seen beneath it. The urinary and 
generative organs were free from disease. The liver was 
healthy in its substance, but its gall ducts were in places 
blocked up with depositions of lymph. The gall bladder 
also had an appearance precisely similar to that of the 
mucous membrane of the coecum and colon. The lungs 
were healthy and free from congestion, but the trachea and 
bronchial tubes had their mucous membrane covered with 
thin layers of effused lymph. The heart was healthy, but 
more flaccid than natural, and the blood in all the vessels of 
the body was fluid and of a blackish colour. The flesh was 
firm and of a good colour, and there was but little tendency 
for the body generally to go into a state of decomposition. 
The brain gave no indications of structural change but an 
increased quantity of fluid was found in the theca vertebralis. 
These where the chief lesions which existed, and they show 
that the focus of the disease is centred in the mucous mem- 
branes of the different organs of the body. 
194. Do you think it more contagious than pleuro-pneu- 
monia? — Yes. Great apprehension of its spreading is shown 
wherever it occurs in a foreign country. Immediately on the 
disease showing itself on a farm, a military cordon is drawn 
round the farm, no straw is permitted to be carried off, and 
no person is allowed to come on to it, or a labourer, or any 
other individual to come from it, except the members of the 
Commission. 
1Q5. You have no doubt that that disease, unknown to us, 
should, with an unlimited importation of cattle, be placed in 
the list of those against which sanitary measures are taken ? 
—Yes. 
196. Chairman .] Then you consider this disorder as one 
which, for want of precautionary and sanitary regulations in 
this country, if it were to find its way here, would be 
extremely prejudicial to the cattle interest and the consumer? 
— None more so. 
197. Lord Naas,'] Have you read an account of the great 
cattle disease that visited this country in the middle of the 
last century ; in 17-18 ? — I have. 
198. Do you consider that this murrain, which you found 
in Germany, was the same, or a different disease ? — I believe 
