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The same thing is shown in.the case of some cattle at Mr. 
French’s farm at North Andover, where several animals were 
slaughtered after testing with tuberculin ; a number of the re¬ 
maining animals that reacted to the tuberculin test were 
turned out to pasture, and in the fall they were brought in and 
retested by the State authorities and they failed to react, the 
recovery evidently having resulted from the open air life in 
pasture during the summer months. 
A similiar incident is related by Prof. Law. He says: “ In 
1877 I recognized the existence of tuberculosis in the Jersey 
herd of Burden Bros., of Troy, N. Y. The worst were slaugh¬ 
tered, but some incipient cases in young animals were turned 
out in. a pasture by themselves, where they passed the sum¬ 
mer in apparently robust health, but they began to droop 
when returned to the barns in the fall. (Paper by Prof. James 
Law, read at Peterborough, N. H., December, 1892.) 
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REPORTS OF CASES. 
GASTRALGIA IN A HORSE, WITH CARDIAC COMPLICATIONS. 
By Roscoe R. Bell, D.V.S., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
The patient was a dark brown gelding, 9 years old, 16 
hands, weighing 1,150 pounds, the property of the Depart¬ 
ment of Police, having performed his work as a patrol wagon 
horse satisfactorily for some three or four years without any 
history of sickness during the time he had been in the service. 
As veterinarian to the department I was called to ex¬ 
amine this horse for lameness in the off hind leg, having be¬ 
come disabled without known cause. My examination re¬ 
vealed nothing definite, except that the location of the lesion 
was apparently in the muscles of the anterior crural region. 
From general appearances I regarded it as somewhat obscure, 
with the probability of muscular rheumatism. I ordered the 
animal sent to my hospital for the purpose of observation 
and treatment. He was placed in a box-stall and prepared 
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