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Equine Biliary Fever 
Case 2 (Nuttalliosis). The next case, belonging to Mr Rice, I.C.S., 
was a horse sent to the Madras Veterinary College Hospital from 
Anantapur, a station 350 miles from Madras. It had done a great deal 
of touring. The owner wrote to say that the horse was quite well till 
17th November when it suddenly refused food. While encamped at a 
different place on the 18th, the animal was infested with ticks, and it 
is suspected that these also attacked the animal in camp during 
November 14-16th. The animal was marched to Anantapur, where a 
Veterinary Assistant took its temperature which read 104° F. The 
temperature however gradually went down under treatment, became 
normal and remained so for a long time, but it rose again to 101° F. on 
1st December, and it was sent to Madras, on 2nd December 1912. 
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Blood examination revealed an infection of Nuttallia equi. The 
animal was discharged on 27th January 1913. Several specimens of 
Hyalomma aegyptium were picked from this animal. 
Case 3 (Nuttalliosis). The next case occurred in Brown Waler 
Gelding (Cob), 6 years old, belonging to the Principal of the Madras 
Veterinary College and was admitted as an in-patient for treatment on 
25th February 1913. The animal was dull, off its feed ; temperature 
104° F.; mucous membranes, light yellow in colour, and bearing a few 
red spots. For the following four days, the temperature varied between 
103° and 105'4°F., after which it became normal. The urine was 
slightly coloured for a day or two after admittance, but subsequently 
cleared up. The parasites were of the rosette, piriform and round 
forms, and, except on one day, it took some searching to find them. 
The animal was discharged on 10th March 1913. 
Cases 4-7 (Nuttalliosis). Four Waler horses belonging to the 
Madras General Post Office were under treatment at the hospital at 
various times during the months of April, May and June 1913. These 
cases were microscopically confii'med as Nuttalliosis. The animals were 
duly discharged after treatment but were never good at their work 
subsequently. 
Case 8 (Piroplasrnosis). B. W. Gelding, belonging to Miss Miller of 
Royapuram, Madras, admitted on 16th November 1912, for biliary fever. 
The animal was ailing about four days previous to admission to the 
Veterinary Hospital. The animal was in fairly good condition ; tem¬ 
perature 104° F., with yellowness of the visible mucous membranes ; it 
was slightly off its feed. 
Microscopical examination revealed P. caballi in the blood on six 
days after admission ; they were sparse and of the ring or piriform type. 
On an average there were about six infected corpuscles in the five 
