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Show ,Morbid anatomy (ffez'er. species and smaller size. Of late it has prevailed atGoerlitz, found but in twoamong a number of with prodigious mortality from Denmark to cats, dissected by him, the vessels of the head Italy. Nor have enquirers, studious of com- parative pathology, disdained to take pains to check and ascertain its ravages ! The animal of turgid with dark-coloured blood. To these specimens of our whole mass of information, derived from such investigation of The substance of dead bodies as has usually taken place during what has been observed may have its place in estimating the relation between fever and or- ganic affections-Frequency of pulse, shortness epidemic fevers, no objection, Iapprehend, can be made,unless that the selection is too favourable of breath, foulness of tongue, rctchings, pun- terbuck. They, in concurrence with all that remain, appear to me to suggest the following gent heat, debility, stupor, violent convulsions and a yellow tinge on the approach of deatln were symptoms observed by Bnniva at Turin (Ree. Period viii. 269.) The disorder was contagious, as also communicable by inOCulation with the slaver. It proved fatal in four or five days. 7 "4930‘" "WA 7 A i i He found gangrenous spots on all the ..r - < ly on the stomach ant. ~ but particular Viscera, intestines. Hallé in one cat observed a purulent collection at the base of the cranium and the gall-bladder greatly distended. The collegC ofhealth at Pavia, in their report drawn up by Dr. Brera, (Sullatfual/eepidemia dc gatti, 4m. to the hypothesis of Drs. Ploucquet and Clut- gross inference, which alone I shall this moment. content myself with drawing: that in idiop/mz‘ie fiver, the stomach and contiguous parts have been found more constantly and more deeply (gfecterl toil/1, i/gfltmzmation Hum the brain and its membrzmes. There stand on record single cases, watched with more than common care during their progress, and more nicely investigated after death. These, to say the least, appear not unfavorable to my conclusion. To the observation of Dr. 1798) exhibit a picture, if possible more ex~ Home upon himself, I shall oppose another, in which the parties concerned must inspire the actly resembling typhus. In their numcl‘OUS and careful dissections, they found the cavities highest confidence, as to what regards both pathology and anatomy. An observation of of the head and thorax for the most part unaltered. The liver shewed black spots; the gall~ this character is worth a host of such as are bladder was distended with very dark bile, th 1l)llllfll"~ small intestines greatly inflamed. Dr. Knebel; at 4w mI-A'--(r~v"ui'~.< ., which I speak is the cat. (if; mm:- ..-.4. o2 less particularly made, and by persons ofinferior T113 ¢l ,--.".7, '2' 9 mm M09817 |