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A NEW PARASITIC DISEASE OF CATTLE. 
scarcely perceptible. The patient assumed the decubital posi 
tion and was very stupid; it could not of itself stand upon 
the feet. Upon the right side of the neck I perceived a warm, 
doughy, painful enlargement about 3.5 centimeters long and 
four broad; upon this spot the cutis was hyperasmic. Case 
took neither food nor water; in the afternoon at four o’clock, 
with temperature 103.i°, the calf lay as if dead, and the follow¬ 
ing morning was found dead in the stall. 
At the time of post-mortem rigor mortis had already oc¬ 
curred ; the subcutaneous tissue upon the right side of the neck 
was infiltrated by a phlegmonous oedema which extended 
inferiorly and to some small extent upon the left side of the 
cervical region ; the muscles were involved in a gray degenera¬ 
tion and their connective tissue was the seal of a hemorrhagic 
oedema. In the tracheal region an oedematous infiltration in 
the form of an individual swelling 0.7-1.o cm. thick; lym¬ 
phatic glands anterior to the shoulder were swollen and 
hemorrhagic, hydrothorax not present, pleura costalis dark 
injected and on sub pleural throughout the chest were hemor 
rhagic spots from the size of a pea to a bean. The surface of 
the lungs were covered at every part with a fibrinous exudate 
which at some points appeared in the form of layers. Beyond 
the injected condition of the trachea and bronchial the respira¬ 
tory organs were normal; the bronchial and mediastinal glands 
at the entrance of the chest were swollen and dark red upon 
section. 
Thymus gland hyperasmic, with here and there punctiform 
ecchymose; mediastium also ecchymotic. But little exu¬ 
date in the pericardial cavity ; heart muscles anasmic and fatty 
metamorphosed; numerous small hemorrhages under the en¬ 
docardium of the right auricle and in the left ventricle many 
suggillations. In the abdominal cavity a small quantity of 
fluid, omentum fatty and injected, peritoneum clear, trans¬ 
parent, smooth and also injected, intestines and mesentery of 
a dark red color. Liver somewhat enlarged, and upon section 
of yellowish hue. Spleen swollen, soft and hyperasmic, section 
nearly black; kidneys also hyperasmic. Fourth stomach in¬ 
jected, but others normal. The mucous membrane of the 
