580 TRANSLATIONS PROM THE CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 
lowness of the mucous tissues, indicates the presence of 
hepatitis. The dark colour of the urine, its high temperature, 
frequent staling, and partial erection of the penis, show that 
the urinary organs are also involved. The malady terminates 
fatally from the fourth to the eighth day after its accession. 
If the termination be favorable, the symptoms are diminished 
in intensity sometimes on the second day, or, at furthest, on 
the fourth or fifth day. The convalescence is very short, 
except when copious bleeding has been resorted to. The ca- 
daveric lesions are, discoloration of the muscles; the cellular 
tissue is found covered with bloody specks, having a yellowish 
colour, and filled with serous infiltration ; these specks are 
met with on all the serous membranes, splanchnic or articu- 
latory ; the blood is everywhere a thick black fluid ; the heart 
partakes of the same appearance as the muscles, and brown 
spots are observed both on its surface and in the ventricles; 
in the pericardium is found much bloody serum, containing 
flakes of fibro-albuminous matter of a yellowish colour ; 
the lungs are either hepatized or gorged with black blood, 
and in their substance exist deposits of fibrinous matter 
of a gray or yellowish colour, which are frequently sur- 
rounded by pus ; the bronchial tubes, the mucous lining mem- 
brane of which is more or less injected, are filled with a viscid 
mucosity, sometimes mixed with blood ; the stomach is found 
either empty, or it contains but a small quantity of food; the 
mucous coat is thickened, and red, brown, or purple in colour ; 
sometimes it is softened and partly destroyed. In this viscus 
clots of coagulated blood of considerable size have been seen. 
Similar alterations of structure are found to exist on the 
mucous coat of the intestines, only more intense. The liver 
is softened, and likewise the spleen, both being considerably 
increased in size and filled with black tar-like blood ; the 
cavities of the kidneys are seldom gorged with blood, but are 
filled with thick bloody mucus; the bladder is either empty, 
or contains a moderate quantity of reddish-coloured urine, 
more or less mixed with blood ; the brain and nervous system 
present no alteration in appearance or structure. 
The treatment adopted w 7 as more or less antiphlogistic, 
according to the state of the pulse, with counter-irritants. 
Among the therapeutics employed, figures the Kermes 
mineral as a sudorific. When the lungs were more involved 
than the other viscera, then the potassio-tartrate of antimony 
was recommended ; the use of this, however, w T as seldom indi- 
cated. When the cough was painful, opium, camphor, &c., 
were given. When the urinary organs were involved, cantha- 
rides and ammonia were to be avoided as counter-irritants. 
