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ventricles a small quantity of blood, which was partially coagulated , 
the coagulum being very soft. 
The tongue was healthy, as was also the pharynx ; but the ducts of 
the tonsils were filled with effused lymph, the surrounding vessels being 
turgid with blood. The oesophagus, rumen, and reticulum were in a 
normal condition. The contents of the omasum were rather dry from 
retention, but no structural change had taken place in the stomach 
itself. The mucous membrane of the abomasum was slightly ulcerated 
in small-sized patches here and there, while nearly throughout its folli¬ 
cles were distended with lymph, and more especially towards the pylorus. 
The mucous membrane of the small intestines was congested, the 
bowels themselves containing numerous flocculi of lymph. Several of 
Peyer’s glands were ulcerated. In some, arrestation to this process 
had taken place, and the healing one had begun. All these glands were 
covered more or less with a thickish layer of effused lymph. The 
mucous membrane of the caecum was extensively ulcerated at the blind 
end, and throughout the intestines it was thickly beset with scabs of a 
dirty yellow colour. Many of these scabs—the product of lymph-effu¬ 
sions—covered surfaces in which no disease could be detected. Other 
of the scabs had ulceration going on beneath them, while under several 
the healing process had commenced. They varied in size from that of 
a small pea to the end of the finger. They were also of different forms 
and thicknesses. 
The colon was in a similar condition to the caecum, as was likewise 
the rectum to within a few inches of its termination. These intes¬ 
tines contained no faeces, but were filled with a fluid of a yellowish 
colour in which floated many shreds of lymph. The liver was healthy, 
but the lining-membrane of the gall-bladder was in a precisely 
similar condition to that of the large intestines. The kidneys w r ere 
pallid, but unchanged in structure. The bladder and genital organs 
were perfectly healthy. The brain and spinal marrow gave no evidence 
of structural change, but effusion of serous fluid had taken place into 
the theca-vertebralis. 
Case 3. 
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May 7th.—The animal, a very poor and weak heifer, was reported 
by the sentinel on night duty at the quarantine in Kamieniea, to have 
been observed early this morning to be giving indications of the disease. 
The chief symptoms noticed by us on our visit consisted of spasmodic 
twitchings of the muscles of the neck and extremities in particular, 
associated with general shiverings of the body at irregular intervals; 
pulse 60, having a sharper beat than natural; a loathing of food ; sus¬ 
pension of rumination; grinding the teeth; lax and copious faeces; 
depressed countenance; drooping eyelids; lopped ears; staring coat; 
arched back, and chilly surface of body. The animal also stood with its 
