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EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN PERIODICALS. 
The first horse exhibited a much swollen head of a ridicu¬ 
lous and irregular appearance. The whole region adjacent to 
the sacral vertebras was occluded by large swellings. From 
the nose and mouth there flowed a blood-colored discharge. 
Respiration difficult and noisy, pulse small, nearly imper¬ 
ceptible and numbering one hundred beats per minute. The 
patient continued to show irrational symptoms, through the 
violence of which .he fell many times to the ground. One 
hour after, the animal was utterly unable to stand upon the 
feet. Rectal temperature registered io4.3°Fahr. ; breathing 
continued dyspnoeic. The blood as drawn from the jugular 
vein possessed a cherry brown color. After five hours death 
relieved the intense sufferings. 
In the second horse the symptoms were less aggravated 
and pain less intense. Eight hours later the tumors had, to 
a small extent, increased in size, but the sedative effect upon 
the heart had somewhat subsided. In this case bloody dis¬ 
charge from the nose and mouth was also recorded, as well as 
small quantities of bloody urine. This patient succumbed 
fifteen hours after the attack. 
Upon post mortem numerous dark spots were observed 
upon the under side of the skin, varying in size from \ to J- of 
an inch in diameter. The subcutis was infiltrated with a 
yellowish brown gelatinous substance, which coloring also 
penetrated the superficial muscular layer. Those muscles 
lying directly beneath the latter, however, were very pale, re¬ 
sembling those parts in horses having died of hsemoglobinuria. 
On the head, anus, and vulva the subcutis varied from a dark 
brown to a black hue, and from here, as from the connective 
tissue of the subcutis in general there escaped a bloody 
serum. Especially in the second horse these regions ex¬ 
hibited a gangrenous appearance. Among the abdominal 
organs the spleen seemed most to suffer a change; the pulp 
of this organ was double its physiological dimensions, render¬ 
ing one liable to mistake the same for anthrax ; the spleen was 
much harder in consistence than in anthrax ; kidneys some¬ 
what enlarged and hyperaemic ; the mucous membrane lining 
the pelvis of the organ in the same condition. In one patient 
