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their surface is covered with petechia, ecchymosis or subserous 
bloody infiltrations ; the capillary network of the peritoneum, 
of the pleura and pericardium are very much injected ; the 
omentum is particularly so. The intestine is highly con¬ 
gested, specially at the floating colon ; the mucous membrane 
is thick, engorged with blood ; Peyer’s patches are thick, pro¬ 
jecting and transformed into a kind of bloody substance, or 
again ulcerated, as in anthrax fever; their contents are mixed 
with large quantities of blood. 
The mucous membrane of the abomasum is also much 
altered, but to a smaller extent. It is covered with interstitial 
haemorrhages, especially prominent on the free border of the 
folds. 
The mesenteric glands, especially those of the colon, are 
enormous, filled with red serosity, or sometimes with blood. 
The mucous membrane of the bladder is often covered with 
petechias ; the urine is clear and limpid, but always very albu¬ 
minous. (In one case where it was analyzed it contained more 
than 4 grammes of albumen for one litre ; a curious fact is that 
it contained also 4 grammes of sugar.) 
The lungs were engorged with blood like the other viscerae; 
at times they were evidently cedematous, but generally the tis¬ 
sue was supple, elastic, permeable, and without apparent lesion. 
In the subacute forms the lesions are much less serious. 
The intestinal mucous membrane is congested to a less de¬ 
gree ; at times there is submucous oedema. The mucous mem¬ 
brane of the abomasum is often dotted with brown-reddish 
patches, marks of capillary haemorrhages, which take place at 
the beginning of the disease ; the mesenteric glands are enlarged, 
engorged with serosity, but not haemorrhagic. 
The liver is large, with a yellowish tint on sections ; the 
spleen is little changed ; the urine always albuminous. 
The lungs are rarely entirely healthy; most often they pre¬ 
sent here and there little diffused centres of catarrhal pneumo¬ 
nia, nodular broncho-pneumonia or only of atelectasia ; those 
lesions are so much more constant, extensive, and dense that 
