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[Vol. VI, No. 5, 
H. A. Winters who had lost many sheep and other animals from 
trembles. On returning I saw a little trembling of the flesh at 
the hips. After watching her awhile they both felt sure that 
she had the trembles and in conversation with me the next day 
Mr. Winters said the symptoms were unmistakable. She ate 
some bran while lying down, stopping to let her head rest on 
the corner of the box. She raised her hind quarters but failed 
in attempting to straighten her front legs and so ate while 
kneeling. At 10 P. M. she was lying still, her respirations rather 
deep and about 10 per minute. She gave no heed to the lantern. 
The next morning she was unable to rise or even to stand 
when lifted onto her feet. Nor would she eat. Breathing spas- 
modic but no trembling. At noon she was still lying in the 
same place, her breathing deeper and about 25 per minute. 
Without any urging she struggled as if to rise and this doubtless 
increased the respirations somewhat. Whether she had done 
this at frequent intervals I could not tell. No trembling but the 
breathing quite laborious and unnatural. At 3:40 P. M. still in 
same position. Respirations labored, irregular, 33 per minute 
after a fit of kicking, then after a short interval 30 per minute. 
About 4:20 there was violent struggling involving not only the 
legs but the abdominal and other body muscles. At 4:40 I 
found her dead. Post mortem examination the next morning 
showed that the kidneys were enlarged to double the normal 
size. One of them weighed 50.3 grams, one obtained from a 
lamb of about the same size at a market and another from a 
lamb about half again as heavy weighing 25.5 and 2G grams. 
No other organs were found enlarged, inflamed or con- 
gested or in anv way unnatural in appearance with the possible 
exception of the brain which some thought slightly congested. 
The abdominal cavity contained several ounces of liquid, “due 
to feeble circulation preceding death.” Besides H. C. Schoepfle, 
M. D., and Dr. Hinkley, a veterinary physician, I had three 
butchers, one at a time, examine the body. There had been no 
constipation. The rumen was well filled with snake-root. 
Death would likely have come almost as soon had she eaten none 
of it after Sunday. The quantity given Saturday afternoon and 
Sunday was 42 ounces, of which 14 may have been eaten. Likely 
enough a small fraction of this would have sufficed to produce 
trembles, though death might not have come so quickly — four 
days from the time of first feeding. 
Meat from this sheep was fed to four animals. A large cat 
ate six ounces of the liver about 5 P. M. and the next morning 
trembled violently, less as the day went on and, after that, none. 
A cat of the same size ate six ounces of muscle from a hind leg, 
but showed no effect for two days or so when it became sick, 
losing its appetite but not trembling. It has recovered. A 
