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liver of those destroyed in the second stage was merely enlarged, indi¬ 
cating an acute or subacute inflammatory character ; in those that died 
it was generally found to be undergoing decomposition; the color of its 
exterior was either of a yellowish, brownish or brick color ; the veins 
traversing the liver contained a scanty quantity of blood of a purplish 
hue. The gall bladder was usually filled with a dark colored bile, the 
consistency of honey, or a more normal fluid of a yellow, greenish 
color. The spleen in destroyed cattle was enlarged, its texture but 
slightly altered, in fact merely in a hypersemic state; in those that died 
it was more voluminous, emphysematose, pulp semifluid and viscid, 
analogous to decomposed blood. The lumbar and iliac glands in two 
cases I found considerably enlarged and in a decomposed state. Color 
and texture of the kidneys was varied, the parenchyma of those de¬ 
stroyed at the outset, presented a hyperaemic, slightly swollen, dark red, 
but compact appearance; while of those that died it was quite black or 
dark grey, flabby and seemingly at the point of dissolution. The blad¬ 
der, in the majority of cases was filled with a blood red or a coffee col¬ 
ored urine which readily responded to the tests for albumen, the mucous 
lining relaxed without evidence of inflammation. Lungs generally 
healthy, the few exceptions showed that the inflammatory pathological 
deviations were caused by irrational drenching, which fact could be 
traced up to the larynx. In such cases not only the lining of the 
trachea, but also the adjacent muscular and cellular structures were in¬ 
filtrated with blood. Heart pale and flaccid. In one case the endo¬ 
cardium was echymosed on the right, in another on the left, and in the 
third on both sides; of those that died it contained ash grey and dark 
colored fibrinous clots. In few exceptions the pericardium was the 
reservoir of several ounces of serum. The vena cava usually contained 
small remnants of blood or relative clots, some of which, however, on 
account of their consistency and discolor might have been taken for 
pathological products had not the topography of it been given. 
The analysis of the blood undertaken by order of the Board of 
Health remained without result. In order to satisfy my own curiosity, 
I requested an expert to examine such blood microscopically (suspect¬ 
ing blood changes, such as ansemia, leucomia, and the like), but he in¬ 
formed me naively that he was only acquainted with the analysis of 
human blood. The symptomatology of this disease as described in the 
handbooks at my disposal differed with my cases, therefore I was more 
anxious to know with what I had to deal. I did not pursue my efforts 
any further at that time, as I was in hopes of very soon obtaining fresh 
