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market Fever'' in Ne^vmarket and tlie sporting papers and no 

 where else; it is in fact a local term that has gained world-wide 

 notoriet}' — it is generally known elsewhere, says Mr. Leach, as 

 infectious pleuro-pneumonia, typhoid pneumonia and influenza; 

 from the post-mortem specimen w^hich Mr. Leach kindly for- 

 warded for our inspection, we formed the opinion that the filly 

 from which this was taken had been the subject of septic pleuro- 

 pneumonia, by which we mean that the case was one of very acute 

 pleuro-pneumonia in the first instance followed by and intensified 

 by blood poisoning; the s^nnptoms as furnished by Mr. Leach 

 were, when he was called in, "blowing, off feed, temperature 105.2 

 degrees, pulse 78, respirations 44 per minute; visible mucous 

 membranes a nastj' pinky-yellow; legs and ears cold; bowels 

 rather costive. Next morning filly about the same except that 

 her temperature was 103.2 degrees, and she had eaten about a 

 double handful of mash and drank half a pail of water. In the 

 evening about the same. Next morning temperature 105.4 ^^- 

 grees, breathing worse, discharge from nostrils mixed with blood. 

 As the filly was a very bad specimen of a race-hor.se, being small 

 and weedy, I, with the consent of the owner, killed her." 



Judging from the advanced stage to which the disea.se had 

 attained, as evidenced by the condition of the piece of lung we 

 received, there is very little doubt that Mr. Leach was called in 

 some days after the animal was taken ill, and in con.sequence the 

 opportunities of effecting a cure were considerably reduced, and 

 Mr. Leach was severely handicapped in his treatment thereb}-. 



Mr. Leach does not consider the disea.se so very fatal as the 

 sporting papers would in the past have led us to believe, and he 

 considers that on an average of several years a lo.ss of five or six 

 per cent, would fairly represent deaths from '' Nezvtnarket Fever;'' 

 moriiover, he is, from past experience, of opinion that most cases 

 recover rapidly and the animals do not appear any worse after- 

 wards, unless they be such bad cases as the one before referred to, 

 when they frequently go roarers, or as we should describe it, they 

 make a noise, to distinguish a lung affection from that of the 

 larynx. Although we cannot claim to have had any experience 

 of cases of the local form of the disease, we have had our fair 

 share in other places of cases that are doubtless, pathologically, 

 the same disease, hence our reason for venturing to give a sug- 



