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the sweating became more marked and extended to healthy 
parts bordering on those already affected. The affected 
animal was dull, and with impaired appetite. 
On the 27th the heifer communicated the infection to two 
other cows with which it was turned out. At the end of 
that day the profuse perspiration involved the whole surface 
of the body, so that when the hand was passed over the 
surface the fluid trickled down on the litter. M. Matrion 
estimated the amount of fluid daily secreted at a litre. Then 
the animal completely lost its appetite; she died on the 
1st August, three days after the disease became generalised. 
It is a matter for regret that no autopsy was made, but 
probably the fatal result ought to be attributed to suppres¬ 
sion of cutaneous respiration. A slow asphyxia was pro¬ 
duced similar to that which M. Bouley obtained in horses 
whose skin, after having been shaved, was covered with 
varnish. It is probable also that there would have been 
found at the autopsy of that animal the lesions noted by the 
eminent inspector of veterinary schools on autopsy of the 
horses which he had asphyxiated by suppression of cutaneous 
exhalation, namely, a gorging of the gastro-intestinal mucous 
membrane with black blood, infiltration of the subcutaneous 
areolar tissue, extreme congestion of the lungs, &c. 
On the 9th August the cow, which had rested side by side 
with the animal just mentioned on the same bed, presented 
on the neck, at the base of the ear, and on the udder, some 
small nodules, which became covered with a scab in two or 
three days. The malady progressed daily, and M. Matrion 
was called in on the 17th August. He found the skin of the 
affected parts red and covered with serosity. At the base 
of the ears the perspiration was slight, and ceased after a 
washing with a solution of sulphate of zinc. The appetite 
was already much affected. 
Treatment .—Nux vomica and arsenic internally, and oil 
of cade (Juniperus oxycedrus ) and carbolic acid on the affected 
parts. In spite of this treatment the disease progressed rapidly. 
The patient was dull and the appetite considerably diminished, 
and it was feared that on this beast, like the heifer, the disease 
would become generalised and prove fatal. A consultation was 
considered necessary, and I (M. Collin) was called in ; we met 
on the 21st August and noted the following symptoms. At 
the commencement the skin became red, then very soon the 
epidermis rose, became soft, ulcerated, and ruptured, and gave 
exit to a clear serosity which agglutinated the hairs and 
jnatted them together into crusts, hard, and resembling dried 
rind. On the udder the liquid secreted was thicker and 
