REPORTS OF CASES. 
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what is clearly an erroneous view of what constitutes kindness and humanity to the lower 
animals. 
. ^ legislation alieady enacted for the prevention of cruelty to animals in the Dis¬ 
trict of Columbia is shown to be insufficient for this purpose, and additional legislation is 
thought desiiabie, this legislation should be so framed as not to affect the Executive De¬ 
partments of the United States Government, and under no circumstances should local 
legislation be allowed to interfere with, demoralize or prohibit the important scientific in¬ 
vestigations which are specifically authorized by Congress for the benefit of the great agri¬ 
cultural industry of the whole country. & 
Agriculture at this time needs the encouragement and assistance which the experi¬ 
mental work of the Bureau of Animal Industry is bringing to it. Much has already been 
accomplished, but even greater results are promised in the near future. It is an age of 
science and^ progress, and all other industries are rapidly advancing through scientific 
research. Should not our farmers receive all possible aid from the same source ? 
Very respectfully, 
Chas. W. Dabney, J r. , Acting Secretary . 
REPORTS OF CASES. 
THE GOAT CANNOT AEWAYS EAT SHOW BITES WITH IMPUNITY. 
By W. C. Siegmund, D.V.S., Baltimore, Md. 
On the morning of January 15th, I was called in great haste 
to see a sick goat. I found on my arrival at the party’s house 
one goat dead and another suffering intense abdominal pain. 
Hasty observation revealed symptoms of arsenical poisoning, and 
I at once administered such antidotes as I found on hand in the 
nearest drug-store, iron rust and magnesium sulphate, in solu¬ 
tion, following this by the whites of eggs. The symptoms 
meanwhile had become more pronounced, pain most excruciat¬ 
ing, manifested by most pitiful cries and restlessness of the poor 
brute. Pulse was imperceptible. I attempted to take the tem¬ 
perature, but the animal gave evidence of such pain upon the at¬ 
tempt to press the thermometer into rectum, that I gave it up. 
Having sent for some apomorphia I set about to prepare my 
hypodermic-syringe and needle, so as to inject the drug as soon 
as it came, when the animal died. 
I performed autopsy on both carcasses, and found acute 
gastro-enteritis in both animals, involving the entire digestive 
tracts, to such an extent as to have blood oozing from the mucous 
membranes. The ingesta of the stomachs contained small par¬ 
ticles of a greenish mass, which I looked upon as Paris green. I 
preserved some of it in a bottle for chemical examination. I 
then proceeded to search the premises for traces of the poison and 
found a scrap of “ green paper ” upon which the goats had been 
gnawing in the wood pile of the owner, and which paper is the 
remnant of a Christmas tree ornament. The city chemist 
