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with nasal discharge, slight tumefaction of the submaxillary 
lymphatic glands, and easily-induced cough. 
4. Erysipelatous inflammation of the conjunctiva palpebra¬ 
rum, with oedematous infiltration, especially in the mucous folds 
between the cartilago-nictitans and the bulb of the eye. 
5. Erysipelatous inflammation of the gastric and intestinal 
mucous membranes , which disappears, as a rule, with’ the lowering 
of the febrile heat. The digestive mucous membrane is, during 
the first few days, oedematous and infiltrated with a yellow fibrin- 
ogenous fluid, to which the swollen condition is due. Peyer’s 
patches are also involved in the swelling. In the very severe cases 
in which death takes place during the height of the fever the con¬ 
nective tissue of the mesenteries appears oedematous, and the ab¬ 
dominal cavity contains a yellowish fluid. 
6. Hepatitis parenchymatosa, with extensive swelling, partial 
icterus, fatty infiltration and degeneration of the liver substance 
7. Myositis, to which may be traced the prostatio virium 
and the unsteady gait often observed. Coupled with congestion 
of the lungs, it also occasions the frequent but not invariably in¬ 
creased frequency of the respiratory movements. 
8. Erysipelasphlegmonosum of the extremities, and in males 
of the external genital organs. In mild cases this is, however, 
often absent. 
9. Congestion of the brain and spinal cord. —The kidneys 
and spleen are, as a rule, only slightly affected. Sometimes death 
takes place about the second or fifth day from the commencement 
of the disease, and is then the result of cardiac weakness, or in 
some cases cerebral paralysis. During convalescence, complica¬ 
tions of a fatal nature often arise, the most frequent and serious 
of which is broncho-pneumonia. Continuous intestinal inflam¬ 
mation (diarrhoea) or laminitis, during the second or third week, 
are likewise occasional causes of death; whilst in some cases the 
animals perish from the enormous erysipelatous phlegmon in the 
subcutis and aponeuroses, or as a result of paralysis of the pos 
terior extremities. 
The foregoing characteristics will suffice to show the specific 
and contagious nature of this malady, as well as the fact that it 
