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REPORTS OF CASES. 
as they could be made ; told the owner that he might expect him 
to die most any time. On the iotli, a foetid diarrhoea set in, 
which carried him off on the 12th, when I had a telephone to 
come and hold a post-mortem on the cadaver. 
Autopsy was held about eight hours after death. On remov¬ 
ing the whole of the left side, I found the body fairly well pre¬ 
served, considering what he had suffered. There was but very 
little fluid in the chest; left lung broken down to about one-third, 
which was studded with millet-seed tubercles ; diaphragm and 
pericardium were thickened and studded with the same ; medias¬ 
tinum, anterior and posterior, were in the same condition, with 
the exception of several large clusters, from very small to the 
size of a hazel nut; right lung covered with these. Small 
tubercles; pleura, covering the ribs were in the same condition, 
only not quite as thick as the diaphragm and pericardium ; liver 
of a leaden hue, and friable; the alimentary tract was free, as 
well as the liver, from all tubercular deposits. 
It seemed strange to me that I did not find the same tuber¬ 
cular deposits in the mesentery when there were such masses in 
the thoracic cavity. I am sorry I neglected having a microscopic 
examination made to determine whether there really existed the 
bacilli of tuberculosis. With an experience of 24 years, and 
with a great many post-mortems held on animals that had died 
from diseases of the respiratory organs, I have never seen a case 
like the above in the horse. I have given a history and autopsy 
of the case, for the simple reason that I find but very little 
literature on the subject of tuberculosis in the horse. 
INSPISSATED BIDE IN BIDE DUCTS. 
By Gerald E. Griffin, Vet. 5th Cavalry, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. 
At 5 p. M., on November 1st, the Farrier Sergeant of Fight 
Battery F, Third Artillery, reported a bay gelding, 15.3 hands 
high, fourteen years old, used as a wheel horse on a gun, as 
being sick. The animal was considered as one of the best in 
the battery, was never 611 sick report since his entry into the 
service (about eight years previous), and always fed and drank 
well, and had regular daily exercise, except on Sundays; the 
animal was observed standing in his stall, with head hanging 
down and looking very much dejected. On examination, tem¬ 
perature was found to be 104.4 0 F., pulse 65, respiration only 
slightly above normal ; faeces normal in color, but dry; urine 
not observed, but evidence of recent passage in stall; ration of 
oats in feed box still untouched, and nibbling a few spears of 
