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18th.
19th.
20th.
21st.
22nd.
23rd.
24th.
25th.
-Temp.
-Temp.
-Temp.
-Temp.
-Temp.
-Temp.
-Temp.
-Temp.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
39.9°C.
40.2°C.
39.8°C.
39.7°C.
38.9°C.
40.5°C.
40.3°C.
39.6°C.
No hæmatozoa in the blood.
No hæmatozoa in the blood.
No hæmatozoa in the blood.
No hæmatozoa in the blood.
No hæmatozoa in the blood.
No hæmatozoa in the blood.
No hæmatozoa in the blood.
No hæmatozoa in the blood.
Temp.
Temp.
Temp.
Temp.
Temp.
Temp.
Temp.
Temp.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
40.2°C.
40.6°C.
40.3°C.
40.7°C.
40.7°C.
40.7°C.
40.5°C.
41.3°C.
26th.-Temp. A.M. 39.6°C. No hæmatozoa in the blood, but they were found to be
numerous in the fluid drawn from tunica vaginalis testis by means of a small Pravaz syringe.
Temp. P.M. 39.7°C.
27th.—Temp. A.M. 40.3°C. NO hæmatozoa in the blood. Temp. P.M. 39.7°C.
28th.—Temp. A.M. 39.3°C. No hæmatozoa in the blood. Temp. P.M. 41.1°C.
29th.—Temp. A.M. 40.7°C. NO hæmatozoa in the blood although present in the fluid
from the tunica vaginalis. The power of resistance shown by this animal is wonderful. He
is reduced to a skeleton. At times he seems to be unconscious and has more than once ap
peared to be almost in a dying condition, but on the following day has recovered sufficiently
to take his food and has again improved. Temp. P.M. 40.3°C.
30th.—Temp. A.M. 40.5°C. hæmatozoa absent from the blood. Temp. P.M. 40.1°C.
31st.— Temp. A.M. 40.4°C. hæmatozoa absent from the blood. Temp. P.M. 40.4°C.
1st January 1891.—The animal died at 1 A.M.
AUTOPSY at 9-30 A.M. Body very much emaciated.
Thorax.—No fluid in the pleural cavities. But both lungs present some yellow-coloured
exudation at the apices, and also on their superior surfaces. The different lobes are more
or less agglutinated by lymph.
Right Lung.—There are numerous patches of atelectasis at the apex and some isolated
lobules scattered over its surface, with intervening lobules the seat of emphysema. The right
base is of a deep-red colour and somewhat firm to the touch. On section, the cut surface
presents the same colour and appearance.
Left Lung.—The apex and the upper half of the organ are more or less in a state of
atelectasis ; the remaining portion presents an early condition of emphysema.
Heart.—The pericardium contains about one drachm of a viscid, straw-coloured fluid.
The organ is distended and both auricles and ventricles are filled with large, firm blood-
clots ; there are no sub-endocardial extravasations in any of the cavities.
Liver.—The convex surface is covered by a thin layer of lymph. The organ presents
a dark-reddish colour on section, and is soft in consistency. The lobules are not clearly de
fined, but all the ducts are stained a yellow colour.
Stomach.—This organ appears quite normal.
Spleen.—Somewhat enlarged ; the convex surface is covered with lymph. On section,
the tissue of the organ is soft and somewhat dark in colour.
Kidneys.—The capsules strip easily. There are numerous yellow-coloured, round bodies
varying considerably in size, which are lying just under a thin layer of the cortical portion
of the organ. On section, these are found to be circumscribed and to be lying in the kidney
substance at from ⅛th to ¾th of an inch from the surface of the organ. One is easily able
to enucleate them, when they appear spherical in form, hard in texture, and of a pale yellow
colour.
The great omentum is dotted over from the curvature of the stomach to the ingui
nal region, more especially on the left side with irregular groups of petechiæ. On drawing
up the omentum, some ten ounces of fluid were found in the peritoneal cavity. Attached
to the omentum in the left lumbar region is an hydatid cyst, the size of a walnut.
Testicles.—About one drachm of an albuminous fluid was drawn off from the right tunica
vaginalis, but no hæmatozoa were found in it. On dissection the apposite walls of the tunica
vaginalis were found to be adherent to one another. The left testicle, on section, presents
a localized patch, circular in form and red in colour, the seat of some inflammatory change.
Brain.—The skull was divided by first making an incision through the skin and then
sawing through the bony structures so as to divide it in two equal parts ; a considerable
amount of cerebral fluid, slightly milky in colour, escaped from the cavity of the lateral
ventricles. The hemispheres were only represented by a thin layer of brain substance, not
as thick as the parietal bone, and the lateral ventricles formed one large cavity.
The chief points of interest in this case are :—
(i). That the disease can be transmitted from the horse to the goat by inoculation of
blood subcutaneously.