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ground. So we tied his head up high, built a partition close 
up on each side and put a rail behind him. We then staked 
a board, a foot wide and one inch thick, upright between his 
feet and lengthwise of the body, and dug a hole one foot deep 
for the broken limb to hang into, as it seemed impossible to 
bandage it. The board kept the other foot from getting into 
this hole. 
In two weeks everything seemed progressing favorably, 
and in a month we removed from the slings, the bones having 
united. On Christmas day, being out that way, I called and 
found the colt running in the pasture and showing very little 
swelling except just where the bones had united. 
MALARIA IN HORSES. 
By J. F. Pease, D.V.S., Quincy, Ill. 
(A Paper read before the Illinois State Veterinary Medical Association). 
After deciding to present this subject to you at this meet¬ 
ing, I noticed an article by Dr. Griffin, U. S. A., on this same 
subject, in the Veterinary Journal. This, I believe, is the first 
mention of the subject I have seen in veterinary literature. 
While attending lectures at the American Veterinary Col¬ 
lege, I remember one of the professors suggesting the proba¬ 
bility of horses contracting malarial fever, and urging those 
who might practice in malarial districts to be on the alert for 
possible cases. Coming, as the writer had, from the banks of 
the Mississippi River, where the miasma from the overflowed 
bottom-lands causes so much malaria in the human subject, 
attention was paid to the suggestion, but no suspicious case 
presented itself until July 8th, 1888. 
• At that time I was called to see a pony mare, belonging 
to a lady, who watched carefully every motion of her patient 
as though she had been human. From the history given of 
the case, it would seem that the mare had had an attack of 
catarrhal fever, from which she was making a slow recovery. 
She was in good flesh, but the coat was staring, and the appe¬ 
tite was very capricious. The bowels were regular enough, 
but the urine was highly colored. The mouth had a slightly 
sallow or bilious appearance. 
