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Fic. 4.—Sheep 691 at 9.55 a. m., July 19. The animal was very weak and stood 
only under compulsion. 
Fic. 5.—Sheep 685 at 10.40 a. m., July 6. Weakness is indicated by the lowered 
head, humped back, and outspread hind legs. 
and at times weak and thready. However, there was nothing in the 
character of the pulse or its rate that could be considered as peculiar 
to poisoning by Asclepias eriocarpa. 
e respiration in the milder cases was entirely normal, but in 
some of the very sick animals there was marked dyspnea. In the 
period immediately before death this labored bre vathing was fre- 
quently accompanied by groans. 
In most of the animals, following the first acute period of poison- 
ing, there was marked diarrhea, the feces being soft, containing much 
mucus and sometimes more or less blood. 
