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About three months before his death he began to lose ap¬ 
petite, and rapidly became emaciated. He was placed undei 
treatment and well nursed, but his condition steadily became 
worse, and he was destroyed on the 7th of February last. On 
making a post-mortem examination 1 discovered the following 
lesions : 
The mesenteric glands were greatly enlarged, being con¬ 
verted into a bunch of tumor-like bodies, varying in size from 
a pigeon’s to a goose’s egg. Both surfaces of the diaphi agm 
were studded with flat fleshy nodules, the largest of which 
were somewhat mushroom-shaped, and nearly two inches in 
diameter at their widest part. 
The spleen weighed eight pounds, and its capsule showed 
several yellowish white nodular growths similar to those on 
the diaphragm. Its lymphatic glands were enlarged, and 
projecting from the hilus there was a firm mass as large as 
the two fists. On section this proved to be a tumor-like 
growth, which at its periphery extended irregularly into the 
substance of the spleen. Its consistence was sarcomatous, at 
some parts almost brain-like, and it showed some caseating 
points. 
The lung was beset with nodules varying in size, the big¬ 
gest being larger than a pea. It also contained larger and 
more irregularly shaped areas of the same sarcomatous ap¬ 
pearance. None of those showed distinct caseation, but at 
one point underneath the pleura there was an irregularly 
wedge-shaped mass, the centre of which was caseous but 
firm, while its outer part was necrotic. Between these 
lesions the lung tissue was congested. 
Portions of the diseased organs were sent to Professor 
M’Fadyean, who reported that he had no difficulty in discov¬ 
ering tubercle bacilli in the lesions. 
Case II.—The subject in this instance was a bay draught 
horse eleven years old. He had been in Manchestei foi 
about four years, for three of which he was in fair condition 
and doing regular work. During the past year he had fallen 
off in condition, and he had occasionally to be placed under 
tonic treatment and allowed rest. About the beginning of 
