RABIES IN CATTLE, 
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ended with a pink-red fluid, as well as those of the omentum; 
-he mesenterial lymph glands were swollen, the cut surface being 
)f a diffuse red color, glistening and juicy. The spleen was 
omewhat enlarged, but not degenerated in any way, nor did it 
;ontain an abnormal quantity of blood. 
As the disease had been pronounced anthrax by a person of 
ome authority, and as I had provided myself with a suitable field 
nicroscope, an examination of the blood for the bacilli of that 
lisease was at once made. .Result: Negative ! 
The liver and kidneys were somewhat swollen with blood, 
ut were otherwise normal so far as a microscopical examination 
ould determine. 
Oral Gavity: The fauces were anaemic, and not at all swollen, 
ut the clinical phenomena indicated the existence of a paralytic 
ondition. The aesophagus presented a most remarkable appear- 
nce, being distended to the size of a bologna sausage by partly 
lasticated food, which extended from a point corresponding to 
urve of the posterior aorta to its pharyngeal ostium. On open- 
ig the same it was found filled with corn and fodder, and at the 
iferior point of the obstructing mass was a large bolus of corn 
idder, but not so large that it could not have passed on to the 
amen had there not been paralysis of the muscorlis. Lungs 
ormal; heart normal. The rumen and reticulum were well 
lied with ingesta in a somewhat dry condition. The omasum 
as the hardest I ever saw, both to the touch and in resistance to 
le knife, the interlabial spaces being completely packed with 
igesta of a hard and dry consistency. No signs of intestinal 
ritation were to be seen in the linings of the three anterior 
omachs. 
The Abmosum : Empty. Mucosa intensely of a diffuse pink¬ 
'd color, and somewhat swollen, but not covered with* any ca- 
rrhal effusion, nor were any haemorrhagic discolorations present. 
The mucosa of the small intestine was in the same condi- 
I while that of the large was less swollen and infected. The 
ntents of the small intestine was semi-fluid, becoming thicker 
id drier in the large until we approached the rectum. 
On opening the cranium, there was found to be a considerable 
