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animal is such as to considerably reduce the value to the butcher.” 
—J. C. 
This disgusting-looking sample of scrapings from the inflamed 
surface appeared to the unpractised eye as a mass of variously dis¬ 
coloured, soft, wet, or jelly-like-looking material, in which there were 
here and there orange- or ochre-coloured patches or streaks, and dark 
red lumps or patches like coagulated blood; and in this material, or 
jelly, the Warble Maggots were still to be found.* 
This sample I forwarded by his kind permission to Prof. Penberthy, 
who wrote me regarding it as follows :—“I have made an examination 
of the post mortem specimen sent. The so-called ‘jelly’ is the product 
of inflammation, and there is every reason for believing that this 
inflammation is due to the Warble. In the small portion of material 
received there were three apparently healthy Warbles, evidence of two 
others in a decomposing state, and three cavities where other Warbles 
had been lodged. The material is not fit for human consumption. 
I think it very deleterious to the health and comfort of the affected 
animal.” 
In reply to my enquiry as to how I should rightly describe the 
altered tissues, Prof. Penberthy wrote me:—“I should call the 
material inflammatory product in the subcutaneous tissues. 
Inflammatory product is made up of constituents of blood exuded 
through vessel-walls which have been damaged. It is allowed, too, by 
some pathologists that inflammation, too, may excite growth of the 
cells previously existing in the part. The dark red colouring is most 
probably due to escape of blood from small vessels which have ruptured; 
the orange-coloured material which I have found in some cases is 
inflammatory product undergoing degenerative changes, in others 
decomposing Warbles.”—J. P. 
A few days later Mr. Child further wrote that the sample which he 
sent me of inflamed tissue was obtained from the animal while in the 
process of dressing, so that the inflamed matter was taken both from 
the hide and the carcase at the same time. 
“In watching the slaughterman take off the hide, we were sur¬ 
prised to find the Warble-grub present, a somewhat rare case so late 
* The reader will please observe that in these notes I am entirely limiting 
myself to observation of the nature of the mischief caused by Warble-presence. 
Inflammation may be caused by injury to the animal, or local disease, or it is 
considered sometimes to arise from too-high keep given to push on the condition of 
the animal rapidly; but the great cause of the alteration under consideration is 
Warble-presence, therefore I have only given the anatomical results of examination 
of specimens where we had the Warble-presence in connection. The mischief itself 
and its origin from Warbles we have ample evidence of for many years back; but 
the point especially asked for was to learn what this changed state was, anatomically 
jJ considered.—E. A. 0. 
