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H. A. SPENCER. 
SOME INTERESTING CASES IN PRACTICE. 
By Dr. H. A. Spencer, Sacramento, Cal. 
A Paper read before the California State Veterinary Medical Association at San 
Francisco, Dec., 1896. 
Mr . President and Gentlemen :—Our worthy Secretary hav¬ 
ing notified me of my selection as one of the essayists for this 
meeting, and the said notification coming to me as it did in the 
midst of an astonishing augmentation of my practice, and there¬ 
fore finding me limited for time, I must crave the indulgence 
of those of you who may never have heard one of my lament¬ 
able efforts at essay-writing for submitting them to the ordeal; 
the other members will need no fortifying, as past experience 
has undoubtedly taught them, as it has myself, that my attempts 
at scientific discourses are signal failures. 
I will, therefore, confine myself to relating my experience 
with a few cases whose symptoms are new to me, although per¬ 
haps they may be common to the rest of you. 
The first disease that I shall attempt to describe, I will de¬ 
signate for the lack of a better name as u Pneumo-Hepatitis.’’ 
The first symptom noticeable is a general languor, the animal 
does not drive with its accustomed spirit, is dull and listless, 
soon loses its appetite ; there is a hard, loud rasping cough de¬ 
veloped. About this time the owner or attendant, becoming 
alarmed, calls in the veterinarian, who will find the pulse hard, 
small and running at from about fifty-six to sixty-six beats per 
minute, the temperature registering from 104° to 106.2°, and 
in one instance that came under my observation it ran as high 
as 108 0 ; the breathing is rapid and labored; upon auscultation 
and percussion a dullness is discerned all over the lung surface, 
but the lungs do not seem to be badly inflamed ; the throat is 
often quite sore and a mucilaginous discharge about the color 
of the yelk of a soft-boiled egg issues from the [nostrils; the 
mouth, eyes and nose are yellow, and pressure over the region 
of the liver produces pain ; the urine is scanty, high colored and 
mucilaginous ; faeces small and hard ; the acts of defecation and 
