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ralysis, the lack of skin sensation, the recumbent position 
with the bead in the flank much of the time, the reason for 
doubting an apparently clear diagnosis may be easily un- 
understood. 
A peculiar fact which appeared in connection with our 
University Farm cases was noticed by the attendants, and 
every one who saw the case, viz: That the animals nearly 
all died in what they called ‘‘inverse ratio’’ i. e., the cases 
which were apparently most seriously sick early in their his- 
tories were the cases which lived the longest, whereas the 
apparently milder cases died very quickly and very unex- 
pectedly. Thosecases which wereapparently most seriously 
sick were the ones which lived until the last ones of the out- 
break. The Vye cow is an instance in point. If the brief 
convulsion on the morning of June 8th had not been seen, 
this cow would not ordinarily been considered sick at all be- 
yond a very slight diarrcea. 
Iris was standing in the yard drinking, switching flies, 
showing nothing whatever apparently wrong with her ex- 
cept slight listlessness as seen in the accompanying photo 
graph, and yet she died very suddenly and unexpectedly, 
without developing serious symptoms until a very short 
time before death. . 
In none of these cases witnessed by the writer has there 
been a rise of temperature, nor any tenderness of pressure 
over the spinal column more than elsewhere over the body, 
but quite a number have shown a hypersensitive condition 
of the skin in general. None of the cases seen by the writer 
presented unnatural heat at the base of the horns or throat 
paralysis. It will be seen that although the State Farm 
outbreak was unquestionably a cerebro spinal meningitis as 
proven by ante-mortem and postmortem symptoms, yet it 
differed in very many particulars from cerebro-spinal menin-— 
gitis as it appears in the human family. 
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