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tut; animal eats and drinks freely. In attempting to bleed an 

 animal, great difficulty is experienced in filliag the vein; and 

 when the blood flows, the animal instantly manifests great weak- 

 ness. The blood is black, and does not coagulate as in health. 

 The symptoms rapidly grow worse, the breathing labored, the 

 eyes sunken, the prostration extreme, and progression impossible, 

 until Lie animal reels over and dies. The disease runs a rapid 

 course, and, on an average, death occurs within fifteen or eight- 

 een hours. There is an absence of the external swellings char- 

 acteristic of ordinary carbuncular fever ; and the internal disten- 

 sions of organs, particularly of the spleen, so ably described by 

 Renault and Reynal, are sufficient, according to M. Anginiard, to 

 distinguish the two diseases. In the treatment of this disease, 

 Anginiard trusts mainly to quinine. He administers a drachm 

 and a half as soon as possible, either in an infusion of coffee or 

 other aromatic mixture. If the symptoms do not subside two 

 hours afterward, two drachms are given. Generally this is suf- 

 ficient. If not, a third and fourth dose have to be exhibited. 

 Bleeding is to be condemned. The body of the animal may be 

 rubbed with a wisp, or a turpentine liniment may be employed 

 as a derivative. Free ventilation, and leaving the animal uncov- 

 ered, to permit free exhalation, are essential points in the man- 

 agement of these animals. M. Dumesnie has tried this treatment, 

 and found it most successful. Anginiard believes in small doses, 

 and not often enough repeated." 



Apoplexy is a disease which, if not discovered early, is very 

 apt to prove fatal. Whether discovered or not, in its early stage 

 it generally baffles the skill of those who, in this country, have 

 attempted to cure it. The incurability of such malady may, under 

 the circumstances, be accounted for on the belief that it often 

 rages as an enzootic, affecting animals in isolated spots, without 

 regard to locality, and attacking only those susceptible to its 

 influence. Waat the conditions are which favor its propagation 

 I am unable to determine, for I have known it to affect equally 

 .hose which appeared healthy as well as others unhealthy in ap- 

 pearance; hence it is very difficult for any one to point out the 

 direct causes of the affection. I have not seen many cases of either 

 enlargement of the spleen, or apoplexy of the same, occurring in 

 cattle, from the fact that my practice has been mostly confined to 

 horses in cities, where cattle were not very numerous; but a friend 



