DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS. 207 
fue animal eats and drinks freely. In attempting tv bleed an 
animal, great difficulty is experienced in filliag the vein; and 
when the blood flows, the animal instantly manifests great woak- 
ness, ‘The blood is black, and does not coagulate as in health, 
fhe symptoms rapidly grow worse, the breathing labored, the 
eyes sunken, the prostration extreme, and progression impossible, 
until] tue animal reels over and dies. The disease runs a rapid 
vourse, and, or an average, death occurs within fiftcen or eight- 
een hours. There is an absence of the external swe:lings 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 twa 
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 
asa derivative. Free ventilation, and leaving the animal uncov- 
ered, to permit free exhaJation, 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. Woaat the conditions are which favor its propagation 
I am unable tv, determine, for I have known it to affect equally 
those 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 ir 
eattle, from the fact that my practice has been mostly confined to 
horses in cities, where cattie were not very numerous; but a friend 
