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Show .56 ZlIorbz'd anatomy offever. found unusually turgid on the same occasion, in the same house (Rush 1. c. p, 103.) Contrary to what is suggested by Dr. Clutterbuck, (l. c. p. 91-3) I am led from the accounts of epizootic maladies to suppose, that brutes are in proportion as liable to fever as to other complaints. The distemper among horned cattle, whether the same individual be liable to a second attack or not, appears gene- rally to have been a malignant fever. Dr. Vicq D'Azyr, who saw it often, declares its symp- toms to bear a perfect analogy to those of the human plague. (En comparant les symp tomes de la peste humaine avec ceux de l'epiz ootie, on trouvera une analogie parfaite. dizwres, v. 146.) Lancisi, Michelot, Mazini, Gazola, Wink, Biker, Sehouten, Sagar, Paulet, Vitet, Wagner, Camper, Bourgelat, Cothe nius, OpitZ, Adaman, Jung, J. F. Ackermann, Von Schal- lern, and Von Hoven, agree in considering this as a putrid or pestilential fever: and if Ramazzini, Hermont, Drauin, Munchhau sen, Layard, Engelmann regard it as an erupt ive fever,- Haller, Gleditsch, Scopoli as inflammation of the lungs; Druebana, Diefort, Erxleben as inflammation 0f the stomach; the varieties we see in the plague; malignant fever, and pneu monia typhodes oftlle human subject, will go near to reconcile all these opinions. As ‘ 57 . As cattle are slaughtered in numbers at all stages of the distemper, while others are left to live out their term, and as the body can be examined instantly after death, it might be expected that the morbid anato y of this com~ plaint would be exactly tiiidnerstood. Coucerning the Changes which the abdominal viscera undergo, a store of interesting informas. tion and such as might perhaps serve to illus~ trate certain effects of fever on mankind, and give an insight into the progress of decay between the termination of life and the earliest period at which human bodies are inspected, has actually been laid up. But the difliculty of opening the head properly and the time requi~ site for nice dissection has left our acquaintance with the comparative state of the organs i less extensive than, for the sake of the present argument, could he wished. Dr. Camper after describing the symptoms as those ofputrid fever with its characteristic sudden prostration of strength (Leger: ivme sur l‘epizooz‘ie) represents the abdominal viscera, larynx and pharynx, as constantly inflamed, and the lungs as fre- quently so. He opened only one head, and found the brain quite sound (fort sain). It must however be stated, that he says---he did not look for any particular disorganization there, as the animals retain their senses to the last Jam M09817 i. |