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ALEXANDER BURR. 
accidentally or intentionally disposed of, still another exami¬ 
nation is made of the offal when, should anything of a dis¬ 
eased character be found, the carcass to which it belongs is 
immediately hunted up. I have sometimes found in the ren¬ 
dering house, lungs in an advanced stage of chronic tubercu¬ 
losis, with abscesses, cheesy matter, grapes, etc. It then be¬ 
comes my duty to find the animal from which they came. 
Having examined every carcass, and found one with a num¬ 
ber of small grapes (tuberculous nodules) on the costal and 
diaphragmatic pleurae which had not been removed, and find¬ 
ing no other carcass having such lesions, one should" feel jus- 
tiffed in condemning such, even if it looked and weighed well. 
During the above time there have been killed 15,506 cattle, 
calves and sheep, among which there have been 880 cows. 
Of the above, there have been condemned ten cattle, thirty- 
one calves and five sheep. Of course, the above does not 
include animals arriving dead, of which the sheep amount to 
a large number. 
Among the above condemned animals (that of the larger 
ones) have been found the following diseases, which I shall 
take the liberty to describe : tuberculosis, five cases ; peri- 
nephoric abscess, one case; pylo-phlebitis, one case; an¬ 
thrax, two cases ; Texas fever, one case. 
In addition to these I shall also describe a few cases of ac 
tinomycosis, of which there have been found seven. This 
lesion, as was at one time thought, is nof confined to the facial 
region, nor is it necessary as an accompanying lesion. Of 
the three cases with lesions found elsewhere than in the face, 
one was in the tongue and two in the lungs, one of which was 
confined to the lung alone. 
(a) That having lesions in the tongue. On running one’s 
fingers down the lateral surfaces of the tongue it felt distinctly 
nodular, though not apparent to the eye : on cutting into 
these nodules they were found to be made of small centres of 
yellow granular matter, covered with fibrous tissue and the 
characteristic radiating fungoid growth was fully demon¬ 
strated in the usual way. 
(b) This case presented a small tumor of left superior max- 
