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of variable intensity, bearing a grayish to yellow muco-purulent 
exudate. In severe cases this presents a croupous exudate char¬ 
acter, which often forms a complete cast of the affected potion. 
Peyer's patches and the other intestinal glands are particularly 
engorged; the contents consist of mucous exudates serum and 
small quantities of blood. In the large intestines the inflamma¬ 
tion is less intense, but the caecum is seriously involved, present¬ 
ing a slaty appearance. 
The liver is discolored, clayish in color and more or less 
friable; gall bladder distended, owing to obstruction of duct. 
The kidneys usually show a parenchymatous inflammation. The 
lungs have been found congested, also' emphysematous, but we 
believe neither condition is characteristic. A fact worth men¬ 
tioning is that the most severe cases ante-mortem showed very 
slight lesions on post-mortem examination, and the reverse was 
also true, hence it is supposed that in the former instance the 
time of sickness was too limited to admit of the pathological 
changes, and vice versa. 
Treatment .—Medicinal treatment is not recommended, 
though there were times when anodynes and stimulants have 
served some small benefit. 
For a period of six months or more intraveinous injections 
of anti-rinderpest serum were resorted to in large doses, 200 to 
6,000 c.c., and if given with the initial symptom of the disease it 
was followed with good results, and under such circumstances 
more than 50% could be saved, but in cases where the symptoms 
are well established, as they usually are in the field upon your 
arrival, the customary method was to inject 200 to 300 c.c. 
subcutaneously, followed in two clays with 200 c.c. more, with 
possibly 50 on the third day, it being too expensive and imprac¬ 
ticable to give one sick animal more than 400 to 500 c.c. of 
serum. 
The following tabulated report of an outbreak of rinder¬ 
pest in the Province of Bohol gives some idea of the prophylactic 
and curative value of serum, remembering that in case of ani¬ 
mals considered exposed or liable to become so 50 c.c. was given 
