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capricious, has improved some. She was tested this day, using 
3 cc. of tuberculin, but it is not followed by a reaction. 
The evening of May 22 the temperature is 39°.8, respirations 
36 a minute, and the milk in the diseased quarters is not only 
curdled, but purulent. There is no appreciable change to May 
26 other than loss of flesh, and that day she was again sub¬ 
mitted to the tuberculin test, but no reaction is shown. Corn 
trarily, the next day, 27th, the temperature goes down ; 5.30 
A. M., 38°.5; 8.30, 38°.5; 11.30, 38°.9; at 2.30 P. M., 38°.7. 
The temperature the 28th had gone up and remained steady 
until slaughtered. 
On the 29th there was an oedema in front of the uddef, 
which increased very fast. In the meantime the respirations 
had increased to 42 to the minute, and a cough is heard now 
and then. 
This cow was again subjected to the tuberculin test June 
1st, when she had hyperthermy, and she maintained her high 
temperature the 2d. On that day her general condition has 
become still more serious, wasted, staggering walk, accelerated 
respiration, 30 a minute, veinal pulse very plain on the jugular, 
100 per minute, the oedema extending to the sternum. 
The symptoms kept increasing in severity until the 6th and 
death seemed to be near. 
The oedema has decreased on the 8th, mastitis is found only 
in the infected quarters. 
On the 9th this animal was sent to Alfort, but had fallen on 
the way, and it being impossible to get her up she was bled and 
autopsied the 10th. 
Autopsy . 
The mammary region forms an enormous mass weighing 
5250 kilo. It consists almost entirely of the two inoculated 
glands. The two normal glands (right anterior and left poster¬ 
ior) are normal in appearance, their tissue is white, supple, soft 
and unctuous to the touch ; the milk contained in the galacto- 
phorous sinuses has a very good appearance ; it does not contain 
any Koch’s bacilli ; they (the sound glands) together weigh 
