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pletely denuded of hair, and exposed the animals to starvation 
by cold. 
The treatment I found most beneficial was to give them 
succulentfood, and externally to apply the common mange- 
ointment; also solutions of arsenic and corrosive sublimate, 
and a compound of sulphur and lime, made by boiling ten 
parts of lime-water and one of sulphur together, which proved 
to be both an efficacious and convenient application. 
It may be important to remark the incredibly short period 
in which the malady proved fatal in many cases. The animal 
sank from the intense irritation set up at the end of ten or 
twelve days from the time of its first attack. 
It was also of a highly contagious character, and capable 
of being transmitted to man, of which I had many very con- 
clusive proofs. I observed in every case that the men 
appointed to do duty with them, who entered the veterinary 
hospital free from any cutaneous disease, were invariably 
affected in two or three days after with a cutaneous disease 
similar to that in the quadruped. 
RUPTURE OF ONE OF THE CORONARY VEINS OF THE 
HEART. .* 
Of this case previous to death l was unable to learn any- 
thing as to what could possibly have been the cause of this 
grave lesion. The stable orderly observed the animal feeding 
and apparently in perfect health, and on visiting him a few 
minutes afterwards he found him dead. On examination 
after death I found the pericardium distended with dark 
venous blood, and when evacuated, I could trace its source 
to be a rupture of the coronary vein. The heart and all its 
valves with the other vessels were normal. 
RUPTURE OF THE ILEUM RESULTING FROM WORMS. 
In the early stage of this disease there was no distinctive 
symptom to indicate its true nature ; but towards the closing 
scene, the symptoms were such as to lead to an infallible 
diagnosis. These were gradual sinking with nausea, the 
animal endeavouring to vomit; cold sweats ; pulse weak and 
small ; death. 
The post-mortem showed a rupture of the ileum to have 
taken place, and in the abdomen, with the faeces, were found 
a large quantity of worms, while in the immediate neighbour- 
hood of the rupture were to be seen traces of disorganization, 
and in many other parts of the intestine there was ulceration 
with attenuation, which I unhesitatingly pronounced to be 
the result of the ravages of these parasites. 
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