4GG 
J. F. WINCHESTER. 
which I referred earlier as the gift, the one whose sickness I 
watched throughout. 
I found her (a heifer) with a temperature of 106 F., pulse 
very much increased in number, and the artery small. The res¬ 
pirations were very much hurried and trembling. The skin 
was wet with perspiration which stood out in drops. There was 
a copious discharge from the nostrils of a thin tenacious charac¬ 
ter, with frothing from the mouth. The conjunctivse were 
swollen and the mucous membrane livid with a continual flow 
of tears. Auscultation of the lungs revealed well-defined mu¬ 
cous rales, which were very noticeable along the trachea, in¬ 
creasing at the larynx. Pressure on the larynx was objected to, 
causing the respiration to become audible, and at the same time 
causing the animal to swallow. The faeces were dark in color. 
The next day the breathing was still hurried, the throat was 
very sensitive to pressure, while the temperature had dropped to 
103 F. under the influence of veratrum viridae. The discharge 
from the mouth and nostrils had increased, and the secretion 
from the conjunctivae was abundant. Her appetite was gone 
and she did not eat nor drink after the second day of her sickness, 
which lasted for eight days. 
The faeces at first were dark in color, at times coated with 
mucous, but the last few days she had diarrhoea. Blindness be¬ 
came apparent toward the end of her sickness, and when stand¬ 
ing she would press her head against the wall. The urine was 
at times bloody in color, according to the statement of the at¬ 
tendant, but when I saw it, it was thicker than normal and of a 
deep amber color. 
During the times she was under observation, aside from the 
described symptoms there was nothing about her actions to at¬ 
tract attention. She gradually wasted in flesh and her strength 
diminished until the sixth day, when she aborted, being seven 
months gone. This was her first offspring. 
Death ended her March 3d, two days later, at about 11.30- 
A. M., and it was so gradual that the attendant who was near by 
did not notice it. The post-mortem was made at 3.30 p. m* 
