SOME INTERESTING CASES IN PRACTICE. 
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micturation seem to cause distress ; the appetite is capricious or 
entirely suspended, and the patient will stand for hours with its 
mouth in a pail of water, sipping from time to time with evident 
difficulty. The animal loses flesh very rapidly, one mare losing 
nearly two hundred pounds in three weeks. As the disease 
progresses the patient becomes rapidly weaker, the temperature 
begins to fall, the eyes have a staring, wishful appearance, legs 
commence to stock, and the animal staggers and seems to nearly 
lose the use of its hind legs ; in fact, must be assisted by steady¬ 
ing him by the tail if it is desirable to move him in the stall, 
and even in cases of recovery this unsteadiness and staggering 
may last for a week after all other symptoms have disappeared. 
Sometimes a convalescent in trying to play will fall. An ani¬ 
mal afflicted with this disease never lies down until he falls 
from exhaustion, when, after making several ineffectual efforts 
to rise, dies in convulsions. 5 
Post-mortem reveals the lungs inflamed to a greater or lesser 
degree, the air-cells and bronchi filled with a frothy, yellow 
fluid, the liver enlarged, engorged and friable ; the pleura, peri¬ 
toneum, stomach and intestines inflamed ; the blood is black 
and coagulates slowly, and in a very little time the carcass will 
smell as badly as if the animal had been dead several days. 
During the past summer I saw and treated as many as fifty 
cases of this peculiar disease, and lost about ten head, among 
them a very valuable mare of my own. 
The treatment that has proved most successful in my hands 
is to apply a light counter-irritant over the chest and throat, 
keep the extremities warm and the body well clothed, turn the 
patient into a warm, well-ventilated box stall, and give one 
ounce of quinine sulphate twice daily until the fever subsides to 
103° or less, then give tinct. nux vomicae and fluid extract of 
digitalis, of each a half drachm, every two hours, and spirits 
vini rect., two ounces, largely diluted, every four hours ; occa¬ 
sional doses of potassa acetate, dissolved in a bucket of water, 
assists in lowering the temperature and stimulates the action of 
the kidneys. They should be induced to take some nourish- 
