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REPORTS OF CASES. 
day pulse 60, temperature 102°; changed treatment nit. pot. 
3 ss sodii salicy 5 ii sodii hyposul § ss three times daily. Re¬ 
covered slowly. 
I communicate these few simple cases more to show you 
the line of treatment we have passed than to enlighten you on 
the pathology of the disease. However, there is no doubt in 
my mind but lactic or some other acid accumulates in the 
body, and the symptoms are directly referable to the action of 
this poison upon the system. Why millet should cause rheu¬ 
matism, I will leave for some veterinarian to explain, but,to 
confirm the fact that it does : 1st. Every case we have had 
had been fed millet for some time; 2nd, that farmers that 
had prairie hay and did not have any millet, did not have any 
rheumatism; and 3d, when stockmen found out that millet was 
injurious and stopped feeding it they did not have any more 
new cases. 
RABIES IN THE HORSE. 
W. H. Dalrymple, M.R.C.Y.S. 
Veterinarian, State Experiment Station, Baton Rouge, La. 
The animal to which my attention was called on Friday 
last, the 1st of May, was an aged chestnut gelding and the 
symptoms presented were as follows, viz.: On my first ex¬ 
amining him he exhibited trembling of the superficial muscles 
of the body : a jerky movement of the lips ; stiffness about the 
throat, with his nose kept slightly elevated ; occasionally bit¬ 
ing at his breast and sides, as if trying to bite an insect that 
was stinging him; the eyes clear, and expressing a good deal 
of excitability; the pulse quicker and more frequent than 
normal; was informed by the owner that the horse’s bowels 
were very much constipated, and I prescribed a dose of laxa¬ 
tive medicine, which was given, after some difficulty. 
The following day, the foregoing symptoms were some¬ 
what aggravated with the exception of the bowels, which had 
responded slightly to the action of the medicine. While 
tied to a tree in a lot at back of owner’s house, the horse 
would at short intervals bite at his breast, at the trunk of the 
tree, then at some branches that overhung his head; he also 
