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over most of the right lung, and swelling of the right side of 
the chest. It ate and ruminated, but was losing flesh. (Nos. 
i, 2 and 3 showed no reaction). 
Necropsy of Check Case No. 4.—This subject was killed 
April 22d, and showed on necrops}^ the right side engorged 
from shoulder to flank with the usual straw-colored lung 
plague exudate, the pale yellow muscle and bands of connec¬ 
tive tissue being pushed apart so as to give the tissues a honey¬ 
combed appearance, excepting in the central part around the 
seat of inoculation, where they were condensed and fibrous, 
like an organizing false membrane. The right pleural sac 
contained a considerable liquid exudate, and false membranes 
covered the lower portion of the pleura and pericardium. 
The lung was normal, the inoculating nozzle having mani¬ 
festly failed to enter it. The subdorsal lymphatic glands 
were enlarged, gorged with blood, and showed a granular 
appearance. 
NECROPSY OE NO. I. 
On April 13th I had already made a necropsy of No. 1, 
but found only the lesions of the original bronchial catarrh 
and two small curdy-looking masses—manifestly tubercle— 
in front of the left leaflet of the diaphragm and in the spleen 
respectively. 
Inoculations with Sterilized Exudate from Recent Lung 
Plague. —March 22d I inoculated two yearlings (Nos. 5 and 6) 
in the tail with a drachm each of the exudate taken from a 
recent case of lung plague, and heated for some time to 180 F°. 
There issued a slight swelling in each in the seat of inocula¬ 
tion, but no general reaction. Thirteen days later, (April 4th) 
these were tied one on each side of the sick check case, No. 4, 
and kept there until the latter was slaughtered, April 22d. 
April 9th to 15th, the temperature of both rose to 103°, 104°, 
and in the case of No. 5, on the 14th and 15, to 105° and 106°, 
then subsided to the normal, ( 102 °). There was no indication 
of any lung disease. 
(To be continued .) 
