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REPORTS OF CASES. 
REPORTS OF CASES. 
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RHEUMATISM CAUSED BY FEEDING MILLET. 
By F. H. Fanner, Yet. Student, Hillsboro, North Dak. 
In the hope that the following cases may be of some inter¬ 
est to the.readers of the Review I have been induced to for¬ 
ward them for insertion. During the last three months, while 
practicing with Dr. B. C. Taylor, V.S., of this place, we have 
had the opportunity of observing rheumatism in its various 
forms. About the middle of last January our attention was 
called to four or five cases of rheumatism inside of one week. At 
that time the weather was fine and had been for some time pre¬ 
vious, so we were obliged to look to something besides bad or 
wet weather, which is said to be the chief exciting cause of 
rheumatism. These cases had all occurred in good, dry, well- 
ventilated stables, but it was noticed that they all had been 
fed millet lor some time and got no other hay or very little 
grain. New cases kept increasing, so much so, that by the last 
of March we had over one hundred cases on record. Most 
all these cases was characterized by pyrexia, sweats and acute 
shifting inflammation of the joint tendons and other structures. 
Case I. On February 22d last 1 was called a distance of 
five miles to the farm of Mr. R. Standleys, to see a large bay 
gelding said to have got very bad on the road coming from 
town. After arriving at the place the owner informed me 
that some three or four of his horses had been affected with 
some peculiar trouble like rheumatism for some weeks; found 
bay horse standing in stall breathing fast, flanks tucked up, 
tenderness of the abdominal muscles, and could only move 
with great difficulty, pulse quick and hard, temperature 103°. 
In the next stall was a bay mare with articular rheumatism 
in one hock joint. Next was a pony mare heavy in foal affect¬ 
ed in both hock joints, which were very much swollen. This 
mare was so bad that they had her in slings ; pulse accelerated 
and hard, temperature 102° F. 
Gave bay horse 7 drachm ball; left 3 h doses three times a 
day, also sodii salicy. 3 ii doses three times a day ; left pot. nit. 
sodii salicy. equal parts for the other cases, to get a tablespoon¬ 
ful three times a day. These cases all recovered rapidly. 
