REPORT ON DODRTNE. 79 



an opportunity lias been afforded to pla*e on record the most im- 

 port mt symptoms and the condition of the several animals during 

 the aforo-mentionod period. 



In the following notes, the principal points of interest will be 

 found concerning- each individual animal. 



On the 5th April 1904, the animals were removed from the 

 Bareilly Branch Laboratory to the Hill station or Central Institute 

 at Muktesar, and up to the date of writing, loth October 1904, 

 have spent the hot season and rains at an elevation of 7,500 ft. 



Shamther. The last plaque to appear was No. 19, on January 

 12th, 1901-. Since that date up to the middle -of October 1904, 

 the only symptoms noted were the periodical augmentation and 

 diminution in size of the sheath and the oedema on the under-sur- 

 face of the abdomen. The rectal temperature of the animal noted 

 twice daily during the' past six months has only varied once 

 from between the limits of 37 C. and 38'4 C., viz., on the evening 

 of the 17th July. 



Present condition. October 18th, 1904. Good, condition, 

 sheath and scrotum large. Scrotal cedema of old standing appears 

 to be organized. 



Kilngarth. The date of appearance of plaque No. 43 mentioned 

 in the body of the report was April 2nd, 1904. Up to the middle of 

 September of this year, when the death of the animal occurred, 1] 

 additional plaques made their appearance and two, Nos. 52 and 54, 

 were still present at the time of death. 



A muco-purulent discharge from the left nostril made its appear- 

 ance on 21st June and continued off and on until the date of death. 

 The oedema of sheath likewise persisted during the above-men- 

 tioned period. The temperature foi the most part varied but little 

 between 37 and 38^0., but for the four weeks just previous to death 

 the readings became more varied, and on several occasions the even- 

 ing observations recorded were between 38'5 and 39 (\ 



Post-mortem notes not forthcoming. 



Pony XIII. C. B. mare, aged 10 years, was inoculated aub- 

 cutaneously with 20 c.c. of slightly opalescent cerebro-spinal fluid 

 collected at the autopsy on Kilngarth held on the 12th September 

 1904, 2 hours after death. The fluid was injected into Pony 



