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erinary surgeon Cooper, in his report on an outbreak of 
surra among.ponies in the Berars, states that “the appetite 
is seldom quite lost, and sometimes an animal continues to 
feed up to the very last.” And Professor Frohner has also 
noticed it in the German type of the equine disease. 
(g) Paralysis. — Most veterinary surgeons who have wit¬ 
nessed surra in animals in India as well as in Burma men¬ 
tion both an acute and a chronic form of paralysis as com¬ 
monly characterizing it. And Frohner has noted the same 
feature in Germany, where this symptom of paralysis was 
not infrequently present in pernicious anasmia of horses. 
We have also noticed pronounced stringhalt, muscular 
tremors, crossing of the legs, etc., develop during the course 
of surra, due to effusion on the spinal cord and on individual 
nerves. And Mr. Thomas Bowhill, F.R.C.V.S., records hav¬ 
ing witnessed somewhat similar symptoms in Southern or 
Texas cattle fever (Veterinary Journal, July, 1890). 
(Ji) Treatment. —I attached considerable importance to 
arsenic in the treatment of cases of surra, with the view of 
contrasting or comparing the results with those obtained 
through the use of this agent in pernicious anasmia; and vet¬ 
erinary surgeon Butler* recently reported most interesting 
results from treatment of cases of this disease in Burma 
ponies “ with arsenic pushed as far as possible.” This obser¬ 
vation is worth noting, when we remember that arsenic is 
the only remedy of any value in cases of pernicious anasmia 
in the human subject. In a recent paper by Professor Osier, 
in the Therapeutic Gazette of the same year, he states that in 
all cases of pernicious or essential anaemia there was no case 
of recovery in which arsenic did not form the basis of treat¬ 
ment. I have found that hypodermic injections of quinine 
have a powerful effect in reducing temperature during the 
paroxyms. “ I know of nothing that has such an antipyretic 
power as the sulphate of quinine, for it decreases the temper¬ 
ature, retards tissue change, and prevents or modifies peri¬ 
odicity .”—(Tropical Diseases of the Horse , 2d Ed., 1888, p. 49- 
* Quarterly Journ. Veterinary Science in India, 1888. 
