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recovery. I have had to do with many cases of this kind, and 
notwithstanding that I employed my best ability, I have saved 
but very few ; which proves to science that nature is the great 
hand-maid of fortune. 
ACTINOMYCOSIS IN THE HORSE (?) 
By W. P. Stranghan, D.V.S., Stamford, N. Y. 
A four-year-old colt was found with a temperature of 103 0 ; 
impossible to get pulse on account of maxillary swelling, but 
heart was beating 80 times a minute. The principal symptom 
was great swelling of the tongue, it protruding from the mouth 
about three inches, enormously swollen, and of a dark color. He 
died after a two days’ treatment with hypodermic injections of a 
solution of iodine and iodide of potash. I called it actinomy¬ 
cosis. 
AN UNTOWARD RESULT FROM THE USE OF BARIUM CHLORIDE. 
By W. P. Stranghan, D.V.S., Stamford, N. Y. 
I have been using- chloride of barium as a cathartic—some- 
times to my advantage, at other times to my great regret. I 
have employed one gramme to fifteen of water, and have injected 
it into the jugular vein. In some cases it produced a great 
amount of sloughing ; in one case it sloughed off the jugular 
vein, and the patient bled to death. 
INTERNATIONAL CASE OF IDENTITY OF A HORSE. 
It is reported from Berlin that Robert Kneebs, the American 
driver, has been once more convicted of the crime of ringing 
Bethel, 2:16^, as the mare Clara Chatham, no record. The 
history of the case is shortly as follows: In 1894, Kneebs took 
several trotters to England, Bethel included, and after racing 
there for one season, went to Hamburg and Berlin. In both of 
these cities he represented Bethel to be a green horse, and se¬ 
cured the customary credit in distance at races, thus fraudu¬ 
lently winning about 8000-9000 marks. German horsemen at 
once claimed that the mare was not green and quietly secured 
evidence in the United States, by which they had Kneebs ar¬ 
rested and prosecuted, and although he made a gallant fight, in 
which money was not spared, he was convicted. He then ap¬ 
pealed, and in the meantime the German Government de¬ 
spatched Prof. A. Eggeling, of the Royal Vet. College, Berlin, 
to the Eakefield farm, Nebraska, where Kneebs claimed Bethel 
