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but was to inform me of her death. Searched the pasture; 
found nothing - unusual. Cows had been running on pasture 
all spring. 
On July 3d held post-mortem ; found No. 9 sick also ; de- 
stioyed her, and found both presenting the same lesions. 
Rumen contained quantity of grass. Omasum was in the 
state of dry impaction—very dry. Posterior to this : Intes¬ 
tines and fourth stomach were empty. Intestines manifested 
lesions of diarrhoea ; no enteritis. The liver tended to be 
rather friable. In fact, no marked lesions, excepting the im¬ 
paction of the third stomach, which was thorough in both cases. 
The owner asked me this time to give him the symptoms of 
hydrophobia in the dog, which I did. He then told me that 
his dog certainly had the disease, and that he had seen him 
chasing and biting the cows several weeks previous. He 
acted so strangely that he shot him, but at the time thought 
nothing of his chasing the cows, excepting that it was un¬ 
usual for him to do so. I did not make a diagnosis ; in fact, I 
was at a loss to know what disease I was dealing - with. 
Un July 4th, next day, I was called in another direction, 
about eleven miles from the first place, to see some cows. I 
found two cows held with precisely the same symptoms as the 
others I had visited, with the history of several others having 
died within two weeks. These cows were not violent; could 
handle them as the others, but seemed to be a little wild on 
approaching them, but 1 did so without trouble. Here re¬ 
ceived history of two dogs having been seen biting the cows 
about five weexs previous to my visit. The cows were bit¬ 
ten, and bitten considerably, but the bites were all healed at 
the time of my visit. Did not get a chance to hold post¬ 
mortem. 
On July 17th called by another party to see a cow in the 
same district; cow showing same symptoms. No history of 
any dogs, but his neighbor, about half a mile distant, had lost 
nearly all his cows, and that he had shot a dog in the act of 
biting them, but after several, or rather nearly all, had been 
bitten. I drove over and received a complete history from 
the man that shot the dog. The symptoms were precisely 
