TEXAS FEVER. 
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gestcd ; mucous membrane of small intestines reddened and some 
what softened ; urinary bladder tilled with urine—the color of 
port wine; specitic gravity 1012, coagulated by application of 
heat. Mesenteric glands slightly enlarged ; uterus healthy, con¬ 
taining a three month’s old foetus, which had several small radia¬ 
ted petechial spots about the head. 
October 12th—No. 1.— Pulse 52, nose moist, horns warm, 
eats, drinks, and remasticates: rumen very hard—almost impossi¬ 
ble to indent it with the fist; fteces still too dark-colored. 
No. 2.—Pulse 76, and soft; eats, drinks, ruminates; faeces 
still too dark in color. 
No. 3.—Pulse 52; lost the excitable appearance, eats, drinks, 
ruminates ; faeces of a lighter color. 
No. 4:.—Pul se 60 ; don’t eat, nor drink, nor lie down; appears 
uneasy. 
No. 5.—Apparently well. Discharged Nos. 3 and 5; treat¬ 
ment continued, adding wine and vegetable tonics. 
October 15th—No - 1.—Judging from her general appearance, 
she does not seem to feel exactly well yet; faeces of a lighter color 
and softer than on the 12th. 
No 2. Filling out rapidly, and apparently about well; faeces 
of a normal appearance. 
No. 4.—Pulse 86, respiration 26, nose moist, don’t eat, drink, 
nor ruminate, persists in lying down, very tender along spine, 
constipated, resting nose on ground, head extended, manifests 
stupor and indifference to surroundings, apparenty suffers no 
acute pain, coughed once to-day for the first time. 
No. 7.—Red heifer, 2 years old, brought up yesterday: pulse 
66 , respiration 20, nose moist, horns warm, saliva flowing from 
the mouth, eats very little, weak and not inclined to move, man¬ 
ure very dark-colored and hard. 
No. 8.—Steer, 1 year old, brought up yesterday, noticed to 
be sick on the 13th, passed bloody urine last night, died to-day 
at 2 p. m. Post-mortem appearance, thin in flesh. 
Upon removing the right shoulder, the areolar tissue was 
fonnd distended with gas, forming small bladders or bubbles. 
Muscular tissue pale and bloodless, lungs presenting nothing 
