Brighton abattoir inspection. 
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ilia, consisting of small points filled with yellow matter; an 
examination of the lungs was made, and found the left to con¬ 
tain numerous large abscesses, confined to one lobe, giving 
it a honeycomb appearance, the space being filled with yel¬ 
lowish puriform matter. This case was interesting from the 
fact that it might have been taken for a case of tuberculosis 
where it has gone on to the formation of large abscesses, and 
it would be sure to mislead one not competent to make a mi¬ 
croscopic examination. 
No facial lesions were found in this case, but in one lung 
there was a dense nodule made up mostly of fat, in center of 
which was a calcified mass of the fungoid growth ; it had 
a contracted appearance, and was, in all probability, an ar¬ 
rested stage of the disease, in which calcification had set in. 
This, perhaps, may be looked upon as being an unusual result 
of the disease under consideration ; but in this instance, at any 
rate, the diagnosis is as certain as this form of termination is 
rare. 
Second on the list of diseases is pylo-phlebitis. This is 
quite a frequent trouble, all but two cases consisting of a few 
small abscesses, in which case simply the liver has been con¬ 
demned. The following is a description of the above men¬ 
tioned two cases. 
(a) The liver contained a large abscess which had worked 
its way forward through the diaphragm and into the right 
lung, resembling a thick rubber tube, having a large abscess 
on either end, dumb-bell shape, the spheres of which were 
lodged in the lung on one end, and the liver and spleen on 
the other. Microscopic examination of the pus showed noth¬ 
ing but simply microcci. 
(b) This case was what might be called general purulent 
pylo-phlebitis. The liver was much enlarged, weighing 
twenty-six pounds, and one mass of miliary abscesses; rest of 
organs all normal; animal was quite emaciated, weighing 
only four hundred and thirty pounds. The above was con¬ 
demned. 
Third on the list of diseases is Texas fever. Three cases 
of this disease have arrived on the grounds, two of which 
were dead and at once sent to the dead house. 
