REPORTS OF OASES. 
quarts of milk. 12 o’clock, colicky pain more intense ; the visible 
mucous membranes of a livid appearance; temperature, 105 ; 
pulse almost imperceptible; respiration, 72; pupil of the eye 
widely dilated; 2 p. m., died in convulsions; before death the 
body was covered with profuse perspiration. 
Post Mortem. —The thoracic cavity was filled with bloody 
serosity, sub-seral infiltration over the entire pleural surface. The 
lungs were cedematous, and the blood vessels filled with dark 
serous blood. The pericardium showed extensive pericarditis, 
with much effusion ; petechial spots were found on its external 
surface ; at the origin of the large vessels was much infiltration. 
The left heart was empty; shows extensive myocarditis, extensive 
petechiae over the whole surface of the endocardium; the valves 
were granular. The right heart was also empty, showing petechiae 
but not so extensively as in the left; the valves on this side were 
healthy, also much serous infiltration of both auricles and 
ventricles. 
Abdomen. —The intestines were empty, extensive sub-seral 
infiltration of their parietal covering; the small intestines were 
congested; showed hemorrhagic spots around the glands. Peyer’s 
patches were found congested. 
The spleen was enlarged, engorged with blood, nodulated ex¬ 
ternally ; the splenic pulp was very soft and friable. 
The liver was engorged and congested; weighed about 25 
pounds ; friable and infiltrated; capsule easily torn and separated 
from the liver. 
Bladder contained bloody urine; mucous membrane congested, 
especially at the fundus. The mesentery was congested and in¬ 
filtrated throughout. 
The stomach contained bloody fluid; a few clots were found 
around the pyloric orifice; the mucous membrane was congested 
and ulcerated ; shows hemorrhagic spots, and infiltration into the 
sub-mucous tissue. 
The left kidney was surrounded by a thick infiltration; the 
capsule easily torn out; the structure softened and congested. 
The right kidney was softened in its cortical substance. 
