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J. F. WINCHESTER. 
In connection with the report of these cases it may be of in¬ 
terest to know that the first week in August, 1893, the attendant 
of these cows was taken sick. The nature of the sickness was 
acute indigestion with severe pains over the entire body, at¬ 
tended by sickness at stomach, vomiting and purging. Accom¬ 
panying this was a general lassitude and lameness. The attend¬ 
ing physician pronounced it a case of la grippe. In November 
and again in the following March the same symptoms were de¬ 
veloped. Since then he has been in perfect health, although 
the period of convalescence was long. 
My attention was called to a cow, June 26, 1896, and I found 
her with a temperature of 102 3-5 F., pulse 54 and respirations 
12. In conjunction with these facts ptyalism was abundant and 
frothy, a thick albuminous discharge from the nostrils but not 
profuse. Lower eyelids were cedematous, with a slight lachrymal 
secretion. She stood with the head carried to one side when 
she could not rest it on the fence. The bowels were torpid and 
the secretion of urine apparently checked. 
The act of swallowing took place frequently, while pressure 
on the larynx was objected to, and at the same time the respira¬ 
tions became audible. Auscultation along the trachea revealed 
increased mucous rales in its upper third. When made to walk 
there appeared a partial loss of the power of co-ordination, so 
much so that she reeled. She had the appearance of being cold, 
for the hair along her back stood and pointed anteriorly. 
The attendant informed me that she had had spells of trem¬ 
bling and at or about that time she became uncontrollable. 
The secretion of milk dropped from six to one quart a day, that 
being the second day of her illness. The following day, June 
27th, at noon, the pulse was 60, respiration 24, and the tempera¬ 
ture 102 3-5. The discharge from the nostrils was more abund¬ 
ant and thicker than the previous day, conjunctive cedematous 
with abundant ptyalism. 
Aside from these symptoms there was a marked shrinking or 
wasting of the body. During this period she would neither eat 
nor drink. At two P. m. she was started for the knackers, a dis- 
