PROGRESS OF THE MURRAIN. 
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orange to a nut) in their substance, one of which had burst 
and penetrated a bronchial tube, and its contents passed up the 
trachea, causing suffocation, the immediate cause of death. 
The sinuses of the head were filled with thin pus of a fetid 
character, and the mucous membranes had a dirty, unhealthy 
appearance. On examining the urinary organs, the bladder 
was found full of urine, which had a quantity of mucus floating 
in it. On passing my hand along the urethral canal, I felt 
a hard prominence near to its termination at the glans 
penis. On removing the surrounding tissues, the obstruc¬ 
tion was found to consist of a hardened mass of the seba¬ 
ceous secretion from the inside of the sheath, moulded to 
the exact form of the glans on one side, and the opening 
of the urethral canal, the lip-like portion; and in that part 
there was a large portion of calcareous matter deposited. 
Both vesiculge seminales were greatly enlarged, and filled 
with a thick, glutinous fluid, of a white colour, somewhat 
resembling the white of an egg, and projecting into the 
interior of one was an haemorrhagic tumour. These enlarge¬ 
ments produced pressifre on the neck of the bladder, giving 
rise to paralysis of it; hence (in conjunction with the mass 
of sebaceous secretion in the glans) the retention of urine 
at times. 
The deposition of fibrine in the areolar tissue of the hind 
extremities gave evident proofs of the frequent attacks of the 
so-called inflammatory oedema. This goes to establish the 
fact that local dropsy often coexists with, and is the result 
of, chronic disease of the lungs. 
This animal was also the subject of ossification of the 
lateral cartilages. 
PROGRESS OP THE MURRAIN. 
The Homan Conner tells of the great spread of the cattle 
disease throughout the Roman States. Mo less than 22,000 
head of cattle have perished by this murrain, which has now 
attacked also the horses. As most of the farmers of the 
Campagna di Roma and the neighbourhood have their small 
property in live stock, this disease has been a terrible scourge 
to the province. 
