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after a short time many of them resume the normal circular 
form. The white corpuscles are in excess^ and there are also 
present minute circular bodies, which move actively; but all 
these phenomena may be observed in the blood of animals 
suffering from other diseases. 
Numerous examinations of the flesh of cattle which have 
been destroyed while suffering from foot and mouth disease 
have been made at various times; but no important morbid 
changes have been detected. In many specimens the pecu¬ 
liar worm-like bodies, which were found so abundantly in 
the muscles of animals dead of cattle plague, have been seen, 
but seldom in large numbers. The illustration fig. 3 was 
Fig. 3. 
Muscular Tissue of Heart in Foot and Mouth Disease. 
Worm-like body (psorosperm) lying loose among the fibres. 
taken from a preparation of the heart of an ox which had the 
disease in a very severe form. The meat, however, presented 
no indications of disease, and, considering that an enormous 
quantity of such meat has been consumed during the last 
four months, it can scarcely be imagined that the flesh of 
animals affected with foot and mouth complaint possesses 
any deleterious qualities. Lancet* 
