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tlie same, the animal continuously standing, staring unseoingly iti 

 front of her, the salivation and niovemtMit of the jaw in the 

 characteristic way being almost incessant. A blade of cabbage wan 

 picked up and sucked laboriously, ])eing finally rejected in an un- 

 chowed condition. It was ol)viously impossible for her to get the 

 food between the teeth or backward into the fauces." After this she 

 refused cabbage, l)ut attempted a little grass with the same result, 

 and the next titiic grass was offered, she refused that. Evidently 

 therefore, the appetite was still present, V)ut she remembered her 

 inability to chew or swallow certain materials. Rumination had 

 ceased to be observed for several days. On this ninth day, also, the 

 rumen was sHghly tympanitic, and occasionally eructations of gas 

 and fiuid occurred, the latter pa.ssing down the nostrils. 



l''or the next three days there was little change except that the 

 animal became gradually weaker and poorer in condition ; as 

 always, a little faeces and urine were passed, but no food or water 

 was taken. The temi)erature ranged between 100 and 102 deg. 



During this time several veterinarians and others who have had 

 much experience of the cattle paralysis as it naturally occurs, saw 

 tlio case, and unanimously confirmed my diagnosis that it was a 

 typical, though not acute, case of that disease. 



During the night of the twelfth day after the first symptoms were 

 manifested, she gave birth to a fully-developed, healthy calf, but was 

 herself found prostrate and unable to rise in the morning. As she 

 had eaten practically nothing for five days, and very little for a 

 week before that, this Aveakness was perhaps not surprising. 

 Nothing apparently was to ])e gained by attempting treatment, s> 

 she was killed. 



Po!<t-mortem examination showed no abnormality that could 

 be considered in any way pathological or associated with the symp- 

 toms, and no excess of cei-ebro-spinal fluid. 



Horse E. 13, aged, and in comparatively poor condition. It was 

 fed for twelve days with lO lbs. per day of bulk chaff from the 

 loft, and was run in a small bare paddock. The supply of chaff 

 being finished, he \<as then placed on the ordinary fodder of the 

 laboratory. No evidence of any illness was manifested until sixteen 

 days after the experiment commenced, when he refused his feed, but 

 otherwise did not appear ill. The following day.he was found lying 

 0!i his side, presenting all the symptoms of paralysis observed in the 

 pony, and in the other experimental hor.-<e. The next day (Christ- 

 mas Eve) no change having occurred, and it being evident he might 

 live for several days without any material benefit being derived froin 

 studying the case, the animal was slaughtered. 



