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and the subcutaneous and inter-muscular connective tissues. The 
blood is dark, fluid and follows the knife freely in its course 
through the tissues. Seldom it is found slightly or partly coagu¬ 
lated in anterior and posterior aortas and other large blood vessels. 
A soft, mushy and very dark brown clot is sometimes found in the 
heart. The lungs decompose early after death (as other visceral 
parenchymatous organs do, in fact), but they appear otherwise in¬ 
tact. The same may be said of the liver. The spleen in the 
majority of cases was found darkened and softened at one ex¬ 
tremity, somewhat like in Texas fever. In cases examined some¬ 
what after death, the kidneys were considerably friable. In 
those examined earlier, they appeared sound or nearly so. There 
was little or no urine found in the bladder and what was there 
appeared of a normal nature to the naked eye. 
Beneath the surface irritated by rubbing there was an accu¬ 
mulation of serosity of variable extent in the conjunctive tissue. 
The skin at those places was more or less denuded and raw, and 
even sometimes bloody, as mentioned in another part of this 
paper. 
The laryngeal and pharyngeal tissues were congested to a 
great degree in some, and less in others. This lesion was more 
marked in the animals in which rubbing had occurred within 
neighborhood of that region. I have even noticed these tissues 
with a slight violet color. 
The meninges were always found congestioned. The blood 
vessels were plainly seen to be filled, and gorged in fact, in all 
parts almost of the envelopes of the brain, extending down to the 
cervical spinal cord some inches below the medulla oblongata. 
There I met with hemmorhagic infrarctus. The brain substance 
itself (cerebrum and cerebellum), presented a congested appear¬ 
ance in some instances. I also met with some decidedly pro¬ 
nounced cases of softening of the brain. Occasionally there was 
an effusion of serosity in the arachnoid cavity, even in the ven¬ 
tricles. 
I found always the alimentary canal intact in all its portions, 
with the exception of one single case, in which the ileo-coecal re¬ 
gion was decomposing, and in which the walls of the third stomach 
