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the cheek from the inner canthus; the coat is starring, appetite 
diminished or total inappetence, dullness increases; tearing may 
become more profuse; in some cases it has been noticed to dimin¬ 
ish, but this is considered the exception; desquamation of epi¬ 
dermis, over which tears flow; about the fifth or sixth day ears 
droop, and while constipation is usually present at first, it be¬ 
comes a watery purging about the sixth day ; all visible mucous 
membranes are congested; vulva, nostrils, mouth and eyes; from 
the latter increased tearing mixed with mucous; saliva may drib¬ 
ble from mouth, while the diarrhoea becomes more intermixed 
No. 2. Animal secured to operating table for bleeding purposes; sheared area over 
jugular vein indicates where animal was bled previously. 
with mucus, later mueo-sanguineous, giving off a peculiar and 
characteristic fetid odor; pregnant cows abort their young about 
the seventh or eighth day; the animal shows symptoms of much 
abdominal pain at each evacuation of the bowels and rumination 
is supplanted by a continuous grinding of the teeth; the skin be¬ 
comes dry, and on the thinly hair-coated caraboo it resembles 
parchment to the touch, conveying heat to the hand, of the in¬ 
tense fever; exfoliation of the epidermis in region of the flanks 
is sometimes observed; twitching of the muscles and grinding 
of teeth, later accompanied with painful respiration. Discharges 
