Some beef was allowed to decompose in some dog's blood; half an ounce
of the fluid resulting from the decomposition, was injected into the
jugular vein of a little bitch. Immediately, the animal made several
convulsive efforts to swallow, and soon became oppressed, uneasy, and
faint. At the expiration of an hour, there was great prostration,
accompanied by repeated gelatinous and bloody evacuations, and vomiting
of bilious matter. The strength became gradually less, and the animal
died three hours after the injection.
_Post-mortem appearances._ The lungs were found inflamed in a very
peculiar manner. They were gorged with blood, of a violet or black
colour, and presented many petechial spots, like small ecchymoses.
These spots existed also on the left ventricle of the heart, in the
spleen, in the mesenteric glands, in the gall-bladder, and even in the
subcutaneous cellular tissue. The peritoneum contained some spoonsful
of a reddish serum; but the mucous membrane of the digestive organs was
found to have been principally affected. In the stomach it was slightly
inflamed. In the intestines, but especially in the duodenum and rectum,
it was of a livid colour, presenting many black spots, and covered by a
gelatinous and bloody secretion, resembling lees of wine. The tissues
in these parts were slightly thickened.