POST-MORTEM APPEARANCES. The IOUVOUS 111e1O branem are generally deeper-colored than nat ural. are congested, softened, marked in places with the same granular palettes discoverable during life within the mouth of the vagina, and in bad eases exhibit (edema, hemorrhage, and sloughing. The first three stomachs sometimes contain a good deal of food, but show less de clension from health than does the fourth stom ach, the mucous membrane of which is dotted with spots of congestion and extravasation. The coats of the bowels arc thinned and easily torn. The mucous coat, especially toward the middle of the small intestine, the opening into the mccum and posterior half of the rectum, is much congested, bared of epithelium, and sometimes marked with bloodspots, but never ulcerated. Pet'er's glands, so generally inflamed in the somewhat analogous typhoid ft 4er of man, are perfectly healthy. The liver is yellow, and the gall-bladder contains an abundance of fluid. The respiratory mucous membrane, like the di gestive, is vascular, and marked with submucous hemorrhage; the lungs are generally emphse matous, the heart often marked with blotxl spots. The urino-genital, like the other mucous
membranes, is congested in females, especially toward the lower part of the vagina and vulva; the kidneys are enlarged and hemorrhagic in the cortical zone; the serous membranes and nervous centres are perfectly unchanged. As in other septiewmie diseases, a considerable increase in the number of white blood-corpuscles is ob served. The blood itself is dark in color; in the later stages it contains less water, probably owing to the draining diarrhwa, and about double its usual proportion of fibrin. The muscular tissues are softened, easily broken down, and contain an abnormal amount of solu ble albumen. The urine is little altered in qnantity, but from the first rise in the animal's temperature it contains an increase of urea varying from 5 to 15 per cent. The chief change in the milk is its rapid diminution in quantity and the increase of its fatty matters. The bile is watery, offensive, and prone to decomposition.