HHEMORRHAGIC SEPTICAEMIA IN CATTLE. 
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very dull cast of countenance, weeping eyes, saliva stringing 
from the mouth. 
Symptoms in the chronic form of rinderseuche : Loss of ap¬ 
petite, constipation, increase of temperature at first. The ani¬ 
mal gets very anaemic ; the temperature drops to normal, the 
mucous membranes become very pale ; constipation is followed 
by diarrhoea ; the faeces are frequently stained with blood ; the 
intestines are more or less distended with gas 5 an cedematous 
swelling hanging from between the lower jaws. This symptom 
with a haemorrhagic diarrhoea is almost characteristic. In some 
cases extensive oedema of the head, neck and lower part of the 
legs ; the hair is stiff and desquamation and ulceration in the 
region of the pastern. 
Course of the acute form, death in from 24 hours to 7 days. 
Course of the chronic form, 7 days to five months. 
Post-mortems in General .—In removing the skin large and 
small haemorrhages disseminated through the muscles, large 
and small haemorrhagic tumors, infiltrated with serum, are 
abundant in the subcutaneous connective tissue and penetrating 
the muscles. In opening the abdominial cavity the viscera and 
intestines always showed large numbers of ecchymotic areas, 
while the subcutaneous tissue was infiltrated with a serous exu¬ 
date. .The mucous membrane of the tongue, larynx, and pha¬ 
rynx and the lymphatic glands of these regions were swollen 
and infiltrated with bloody serum. 
History of Previous Outbreaks .—Friedberger and Frohner 
say this disease is not so recent as might be believed. A terri¬ 
ble epizootic was described in the Veterinarian. In 1858, an 
epizootic which decimated the bovines was nothing else than 
the disease in question. In 1878, Bollinger described under 
the name of “Wild and Rinderseuche” an epizootic disease 
which killed 234 boars and 153 deer in the royal game preserve 
in the environs of Munich. After the plague in the park had 
died out, the domestic cattle in the neighborhood began dying 
of the same, or a very similar disease. The disease was sudden 
in its onset and rapidly fatal, death occurring in most cases in 
