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Show Morbid anatomy tffever. It is sometimes however soft, containing a pultaceous mass as in health. If the animal have not lain long dead, the internal coat of this stomach adheres firmly and cannot be peeled off with the fingers, as in those that have died or been slaughtered after some continuance of the disease, or such as have lain only 24 hours after being killed in full health. In the fourth stomach, red, inflamed places occur, but here, as Camper also admonishes, care must be taken not to be misled by the natural darkish colour of this stomach. The internal coat of the small intestines already shews traces of inflammation. The liver is more brittle, the gall-bladder larger, the spleen darker than in the sound state; the lungs healthy, except only that the ramifica- tions of the bronchia are fullofa white, and now and then of a reddish foam. The flesh has the healthy appearance. The blood is now strongly branes of the brain are many times blood-shot. After illness of several days the omentum is extremely. lean, and in the whole beast, however fat beforehand, scarce half the quantity of tallow that would otherwise have been obtained. Inflammation up to gangrene, progressively in-w creasing from the first to the fourth stomach. The same in the intestines. The liver more brittle. The gall-bladder four, or even six times as large as it should be and full of a foetid liquor, like grounds of beer: the pancreas enlarged, the spleen more livid and softer. The urinary bladder sometimes inflamed, and s0 is the uterus, if it be a cow in calf. Thelungs rarely without hardnessess, inflammation, or gangrene. The trachea inflamed or gangrenous. The heart more flabby and paler than in the natural state, and full of dark dissolved fluid blood, and this is also found in the large vessels. The tongue inflamed at the root, and the fauces beset with blebs, and red or coagulated 5 from which and the other signs dark specks. "The brain inalmost all cases I have found perfectly sound and natural; only some- the author concludes the disorderto be in the times it was softer than common, and the mem~ lust stage inflammatory; and he designates it, as a bilious inflammatory fever, arising from a Peculiarcontagion, and easily passing into pu- l'I‘l'l." "Nd gangrene-In the head he adds, that there branes turgid with thin blood." (p. 55.) Be» tween the hide and the flesh there frequently occurred considerable effusion. A destructive fever has for centuries been noticed among domestic animals of a different species __ from containing dry food, feels likeahard lump. there is nothing unusual, except that the meme «Mrs-um- «Pv'w When the beast is slaughtered after the illness of aday or two, the two first stomachs are gee nerally found in their natural state. The third, 6r «we. '*'6r 60 |