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No pleural fluid, but severe pleuritis without adhesions.

Lungs healthy except for one lobe showing commencing
pneumonia.

In the heart were traces of extravasation on the
endocardium.

Peritoneal cavity contained no fluid.

The chief lesions were in the abdomen.

The 3rd and 4th stomachs were severely inflamed.

The small intestines and especially Peyer's patches were
bright scarlet.

Large intestines showed patchy inflammation.

The blood-vessels on the brain surface were very full and
the meninges were much injected.

Cultures were obtained from all the organs and fluids in
the body, and especially good and abundant results were got
from the urine.

Many other buffaloes have been inoculated with similar
results.

                                 CATTLE.

A. cow calf was inoculated subcutaneously over the
shoulder with 1 c.c. emulsion of H. S. culture on agar from a
rabbit. He was inoculated in the afternoon and the follow-
ing morning the temperature was 105°F. The calf was dull,
off feed and had a quickened pulse.

The mucous membranes were congested.

Breathing was normal.

A large œdematous swelling appeared all round the
seat of inoculation and over the neck. Death occurred in
33 hours.

                           Post-mortem.

Pharynx and œsophagus were leaden coloured and
showed inflammation in patches.

Spaces between the tracheal rings inflamed.

In the pleural cavity was an excess of fluid.

In the pericardial cavity 300 c.c. pericardial fluid.

Extravasations on and around the columnæ carneæ.

1st and 2nd stomachs were healthy. In the 3rd the
leaves were injected bright red.