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of cattle in that period. All imaginable diseases were sus¬ 
pected by professionals and non-professionals. I held post 
mortems year after year, and always found the same thing— 
splenic fever or apoplexia. 
In the year 1885 the suspicion of poisoning was so strong 
that Mr. Noxon wanted a chemical analysis of the stomach. 
As I knew that would have been money spent for nothing, I 
proposed that Professor Liautard make a post mortem ex¬ 
amination. After the post mortem he stated to the owner 
that the whole cause was splenic fever. 
A great many medicines were used with no offect. I ad¬ 
vocated to the owners the vaccination with anthrax virus. 
11 even went so far as to offer to do it for nothing if it was a 
failure. 
The following is a history of the different herds that 
came under my care in 1886 : 
On July 3d was called to see a cow belonging to Mr. 
i Hoppe ; she died before I reached' her. The second cow 
was found dead in the lot. On July 10th was called to the 
third cow and put her under treatment for splenic fever (my 
record does not show what treatment). In twelve hours, to 
all appearances, she was well, but in ten hours more she 
died, and post mortem examination proved it to be splenic 
fever. The spleen weighed eight and a half pounds. 
Mr. Hoppe’s neighbor lost his only cow. They were the 
only cows these men owned. 
On July 17th I was called to Mr. E. Lyons’ farm. Ten 
days previous to my call he lost one Jersey cow. On July 
16th the second cow was taken sick, to which Dr. Thomp¬ 
son was called and diagnosed it as dysentery. The cow died 
shortly after he left. On July 17th two more cows died 
without warning or medical care. The same day I found 
nine sick cows. My diagnosis was splenic fever. I was not 
prepared for any treatment that night. On the 18th I made 
a post mortem on cows that died on the 17th and found 
them to have had typical cases of splenic fever. I then sep¬ 
arated the sick from the well. 
The following are the s) r mptoms and treatment of this 
herd : 
