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and tho ])CMiod ])rolonged for more than a week. The most severe 

 attac-k (huinj:: the year was that of Willowmoor John Gray, occurrmg 

 botwo(>n March 19 and 28, mclusive. The daily temperatures of this 



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Fig. 4.— Teiiii)erature chart of Red Rose. 



animal for the period mentioned are recorded in temperature (fig. 2), 

 but in order to reduce the results to a form that will be more easily 

 seen, these data are tabulated, as follows: 



Temperature record of Willowmoor John Gray, covering a period of fever from March 18 



to 29, incliisive 



Duruig the course of this fever the first indication of disease, other 

 than an abnormally high temperature, was observed about 4 o'clock 

 p. m. on March 22, when weakness was indicated by the animal con- 

 stantly shifting the weight of the hind quarters from one foot to the 

 other. At the same time a trembling of the muscles of the hind legs 

 and flank was noted, and the animal flinched with paui under the least 

 pressure of the kidneys. During the latter stages of the attack the 



