208 COXTAGIOUS DISEASES OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. 



13 head more diet! in rapid succession, lie then fenced in a pasture 

 for his cattle, phiced them therein, and has not lost any since. 



The Boyd herd of cattle (suspected — of which more liereafter) were 

 driven on their way west from Harper into Barbour Connty, along a 

 freif^htroad which crosses his range, upon which road also oxen attached 

 to wagons and small herds of cattle were driven back and forth all sum- 

 mer, and cattle passed in the care of herders every morning. 



Mr. E. Walden, L* miles north of Dr. Brockway's, lost all the cattle he 

 had — 7 head. They died in the month of September. His cattle have 

 been near the Boyd trail, and also near the Anderson trail (another 

 susi)ected herd). 



•The next place I visited was William A. Wood's, on the line of Har- 

 per and Barbour Counties. He made the following statement : 



Mr. Boyd, in the month of A))ril, ci'o.ssed my range with his cattle; I drove my 

 cattle back, 115 iu uiimUor, to allow him to pass. A few days later a second herd, 

 numbering 900, were driven through on the same trail. I again turned my cattle back 

 to allow this secoud herd to pass; they stopped on my range to graze for two hours; 

 they then went west to the Little Sandy, where they turned and went northwest. 

 These cattle were loug-horns. I picketed 1 cow and 2 calves on the trail of these two 

 herds. The cow was taken sick on the 1st of October, and died on the 12th. All of 

 my cattle crossed this trail daily ; 5 of them were taken sick, but only the 1 died. 



I went out on the range to see the one that died on the 12th (two days 

 ago). I found her in a fair state of preservation, and decided to make 

 'A: post-mortem examination, I removed the wall of the chest and abdo- 

 men of the right side. Found the lungs in a nearly normal condition ; 

 the pericardium contained four ounces of bloody colored serum ; the 

 heart was extensively ecchymosed on both the external and internal 

 surfaces, the endocardium being somewhat softened and pal r than nor- 

 mal ; no heart clots were present. The liver weighed 13 pounds, the 

 enlargement being due to hypertiemia ; gall bladder contained 10 ounces 

 of a dark olive colored bile, of a thicker consistency than normal ; spleen 

 weighed 4| pounds ; contents, a dark purple semi-fluid pulp ; a general 

 disintregration had taken place; urine bladder empty ; kidneys normal 

 in color and size. The fourth stomach presented extensive congestion 

 of the mucous membrane, especially towards the cardiac end, and many 

 small erosions exposing the vascular membrane were visible near the 

 pyloric end ; redness and congestion, accompanied more or less by 

 thickening of the mucous membrane of the small intestines, was manifest 

 upon close inspection ; interstitial extravasations of blood between the 

 membranes of the cjecum and also of the rectum were found, and the 

 feces coated with mucus mixed with blood. The uterus contained a 

 male calf six and a half months old ; the liver of the fetus weighed IJ 

 pounds; spleen a])parently normal ; pericardium contained 2 ounces of 

 very dark-colored bloody fluid, also an abnormal amount of bloody' 

 colored fluid was discovered in the thoracic cavity. 



1 examined a white cow, six years of age, which was supi)osed to be 

 recovering; she had been sick for two weeks; pulse 112, temperature 



