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REPORTS OF CASES. 
These instructions were not carried out properly and resulted 
in inflaming the skin so that it grew worse instead of better. 
He finally recovered sufficiently to go about without any 
lameness or stiffness and he was led to his home, twelve miles 
from the city, where he arrived as fresh, apparently, as when 
he started. 
Under the daily application of salicylic acid and oxide of 
zinc ointment, the irritation of the skin had subsided and the 
swelling disappeared. 
On the 8th of April he served a mare twice inside of five 
minutes, the second time making a very close cover. 
CONCLUSIONS. 
1. It would be well to perform such an operation as the 
above under antiseptic precautions if possible. 
2. The animal should have been placed in a warm, dry 
box. 
3. Under the circumstances he should have been allowed 
to rise immediately the operation was finished. 
4. He should have been allowed to lie down on the third 
day after the operation, at any rate. 
ACUTE NEPHRITIS IN MULES. 
By W. H. Dalrymple, M.R.C.Y.S., Baton Rouge, La. 
On the 8th of March we were requested by letter to visit 
one of the large sugar plantations along the Mississippi 
valley in this State to investigate what the owner termed 
a peculiar disease among his mules, five of them having died 
and eleven or twelve suffering. 
Being somewhat suspicious of an outbreak of a contagious 
character, we proceeded at once to the place, and the follow¬ 
ing were the most prominent symptom presented by the sick 
animals: Lassitude, emaciation, staring coat, slow pulse, visi¬ 
ble mucous membranes pale, extreme tenderness over the re¬ 
gion of the kidneys, thirst, loss of appetite, frequent urination 
(was informed by the attendant that the urine passed by the 
mare mules, more particularly those most advanced in the 
disease, was observed to be tinged with blood); dragging gait 
