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palate ,true stomach, and the first portions of the intes¬ 
tinal tube. The small intestines contain much bilious and mucous 
matters, and numerous reddish patches are observed here and 
there, with thickening and softening of the mucous tissue; the 
mucous follicles are very apparent, and their orifices are often 
surrounded by a red margin. 
Veterinary Surgeon Adams, of Augsbourg, states that 
instances of this kind, although rare, have been noted by 
him, and that the complications of aphthous fever consist in 
a catarrhal affection of the gastro-intestinal mucous membrane, 
with thickening of the follicles and erosion. 
Lafosse, jun., in his ^ Dictionnaire d’Hippiatrique,^ article 
^•'Aphthes,^^ writes:—On the 12th January, 1771, I was 
called to the Barriere-Blanche to a man named Antoine 
Louvet, to see some cows that were attacked by an epidemic 
malady, which had caused the death of all so affected. I 
opened some of them, in which the parts above named 
(pharynx, oesophagus and trachea) were covered with aphthae. 
I found the intestines sphacelous and full of fluid, which was 
the matter of the dysenteric dejections that they expelled five 
or six hours before death. 
Vatel, in his ^ Elements de Pathologic Veterinaire,^ says— 
These ulcerations (aphthge), especially occupy the inner 
face of the lips, gums, tonsils, and sides of the tongue. They 
are also sometimes developed on the deeper-seated mucous 
membrane, as in the pharynx, larynx, oesophagus, trachea, 
&c.^^ 
Gelle remarks, in his ^Pathologic Bovine^—Sometimes 
the aphthae are continued into the pharynx, oesophagus, and 
true stomach. Then the case is serious ; deglutition is very 
difficult, and the inflammation of the mucous membrane 
causes obstinate constipations."’^ 
Lafore, in his ‘ Traite des Maladies Particulieres aux 
Grand Ruminants,^ says—In the few autopsies which have 
been made, there have been found traces of inflammation in 
the gastro-intestinal mucous membrane, and ulceration of it. 
It appears that the affection is only mortal in cases in which 
the critical phenomena of ulceration takes place internally, 
instead of being localised only in the mouth and digital 
region.” 
Hurtrel d^Arboval,in the ‘Dictionnaire,^ article ^^Aphthes,” 
writes—“ These aphthae especially occupy the inner aspect of 
the lips, gums, fauces, and sides of the tongue; but they are 
also developed on the membrane of the phai'ynx, oesophagus, 
larynx, trachea, and even at the posterior nares down to the 
stomach, or even as far as the true stomach of didactvles 
