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jire dead. Some of them cough a little, some do not. Owner has lost 

 12 out of 17 since Sunday, (21st). Ewes are in good condition. Warm 

 stables, but plenty of air and dry. I held post-mortem on two and find 

 in each, one side of lung hepatized and other normal and otherwise 

 everj'thing appears normal except umbilical arteries which are inflamed. 

 Stable is clean and kept so." 



Examination of cases received as follows: 



Larger female, i)robably one week old ; umbilicus seemed normally 

 healed; digestive tract open; extensive pleurisy with adhesion of right 

 lung to parietal pleura ; lungs greatly congested ; umbilical vein filled 

 with blood and distended greatly from umbilicus to liver; liver gorged 

 with blood and showed few hemorrhages under capsule. Umbilical 

 arteries prominent, containing some coagulated dark colored blood; 

 serosa of fundus of bladder and broad ligament of bladder between 

 bifurcation of umbilical artery hemorrhagic. 



While this investigation is not complete or conclusive as determining 

 the cause of the trouble, the bacteriological and pathological findings 

 indicate umbilical infection. 



TRAUMATIC SEROUS IXFLA AIMATIOX WITH SEPTICAEMIA. 



A case, simulating malignant head catarrh in a shorthorn heifer 

 at St. Johns, jNIich., was brought to our attention,- June 2.3, 1900, by 

 Dr. Gohu. This case resembled others that Dr. Gohn had met with in 

 practice and its fatal character, the similarity of the cases and the 

 possibility of an infectious agent being at the seat of the trouble induced 

 us to make an investigation. 



We found the case on the farm of Mr. M . The heifer was 



perfectly healthy and in excellent condition on the 19th; very sick on 

 the following day, showing high fever, labored breathing, purulent dis- 

 charge from the eyes and nostrils; no appetite. There were two cases 

 of actinomycosis ( ?) on the farm at the time. At least, these cases 

 resembled actinomycosis closely, although the ray fungus had not been 

 isolated. We suspected that possibly the same organism might be re- 

 sponsible for the trouble in all three cases. The two cases being treated 

 for actinomj'cosis were doing nicely. 



The subject for our investigation was in very bad condition. The 

 back was arched, eyes discharging and the eye-lids, fly blown; thick 

 nasal discharge clinging to orifices of nostrils ; coat, rough ; flanks, 

 tucked up; temperature, 104°. The animal was killed by bleeding. 



Post mortem : Hard palate and buccal membranes red, showing be- 

 ginning ulceration; kidneys, congested, abdominal fat, tinged with 

 blood pigment; liver, large, light in color, on section showed bile ducts 

 distended with bile; cholecyst, greatly distended ^vith thick, green 

 viscid bile; adhesions of liver to diaphragm with area of fibrinous 

 exudate and congestion both on liver and diaphragm several inches in 

 diameter; an abscess, the size of a hen's egg, thickly encapsulated, con- 

 nected the liver, diaphragm and reticulum at this area of congestion ; 

 upon opening the reticulum, a bright, new, galvanized carpet tack was 

 found with the point touching the mucosa opposite the abscess; slight 

 congestion of mucosa of small intestines; mesenteric lymph glands 

 reddened in cortex; the diaphragm shoAved congestion and fibrinous 



