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irregular in outline, with hard mottled patches here and there, 
as well as small bluish white streaks, and the presence of 
flukes, which at this period are of a pale, dirty, green colour. 
Subsequent post-mortem shows great and general emaciation 
of the whole body—the animal being nothing but skin and 
bone. On removing the skin, the muscles or flesh are found 
to be soft and flabby, and an unnatural paleness is observed 
throughout the body, as if the animals were entirely 
bloodless. Little or no fat is to be seen, here and there are 
accumulations of water, more particularly under the lower 
jaws, neck and thighs. One remarkable fact is that the flesh never 
stiffens after being slaughtered and dressed. On opening the body, 
the abdomen is found to contain a large quantity of water 
varying in colour and density according to the extent of the 
complaint. All the internal organs, like the flesh, have a 
soft bleached appearance, the net or mesentery is like a lot of 
4 yellow matted cords. The liver, the principal organ affected 
with structural derangement, varies in different subjects, but 
generally speaking it is of a peculiar yellow clay colour and 
at times is so hard that it is easily broken. The bile passages 
are enlarged and thickened ; the large canals are much 
dilated and stand out above the surface of the liver, which, 
on being cut into, are generally found to contain large 
quantities of flukes. It is an old saying that a well rotted 
sheep rarely hears the cuckoo, yet I have seen sheep that 
have been well cared for, outlive the period required by the 
fluke for location in the liver, but the lesions caused by the 
presence of the parasites are so extensive that the animals 
are seldom, if ever, made payable, and on making post-mortem 
examinations of such cases we find that the flukes have left 
their habitation and are found in the gall bladder and all 
along the intestinal canal, either having robbed the constitu¬ 
tion of the animal they infected to such an extent that the}^ 
