RABIES IN CATTLE. 
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substance of the brain had an abnormally red shade; cut surface 
moist and glistening; a dark red fluid oozed from the cut ves¬ 
sels. At the base of the brain was a considerable quantity of 
3traw-colored fluid. The ventricles contained a quantity of red 
aquous fluid; choroid plexus distended with blood. 
The medulla oblongata was surrounded by an abnormal 
quantity of straw-colored fluid ; cut surface moist and glistening; 
longitudinal veins of spinal canal filled with a dark blue-red 
fluid. Fauces somewhat swollen and covered with a viscid ma¬ 
terial, and the large vessels injected. The entrance to the larynx 
somewhat red and swollen ; vessels injected. Some of trachea 
ind bronchial tubes, bronchial lymph glands swollen and some¬ 
what reddened ; cut surface moist and glistening. Lungs and 
Heart normal. 
Abdominal cavity : Blood dark blue-red ; vessels of omen¬ 
tum and mesentery engorged ; some diffuse redness here and 
[here in both membranes. Outside of small intestine of a diffuse 
lelicate pink-red color; that of large less so. Spleen somewhat 
enlarged and of an oblong-oval shape ; the swelling was more in 
ihickness than in length. 
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Liver swollen, and the substance of an opaque yellowish-grey 
ippearance. Gall bladder full. 
Kidneys somewhat swollen. Cortical substance of a yellow- 
sh-grey opaque color; medullary red, and vasa recti injected. 
Bladder about one-third full; urine of a pale straw color; al¬ 
bumen present in small quantity. 
Stomach : Only partially filled with ingesta. Linings of 
irst three stomachs softened, and peeled off easily. Third stom- 
•ch contracted, and contained numbers of small stones. Mr. 
fance remarked that u all his sick cattle eat dirt greedily.” 
Fourth stomach: Mucosa swollen, of a diffuse pink-red 
olor; numerous ecchymoses of variable dimensions, with here 
nd there somewhat extensive haemorrhages which ended dif- 
usely in surrounding tissue. This condition extended through 
he small and into the large intestine, becoming less and less 
larked towards the rectum. The intestines were but partially 
lied with chyme and faeces, and the walls contracted; it was 
