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REPORTS OF CASES. 
siderably disturbed. The indications for recovery were certainly 
not very encouraging, and we decided to attempt treatment ac¬ 
cording to antiseptic methods. 
The wound and surrounding parts were thoroughly washed 
with bichloride of mercury i to 1,000 parts of water. My im¬ 
pulse was to close the wound with stitches, but after some hesi¬ 
tation decided that perhaps drainage should be provided, so no 
stitches were employed. Several ounces of borated cotton were 
placed over the wound, and over this a large pad of oakum. 
These were held in position by a wide, double “many-tail'’ 
bandage of ticking and pressure increased by a surcingle. 
The animal received salicylate of soda in doses of one drachm 
three times daily, and the best food and attention. Clean dress¬ 
ings were used daily. The wound responded kindly to our 
treatment, and in ten days had closed. No further dressings 
were considered necessary from this time except a light dusting 
with iodoform. 
A very small scar is now the only evidence of the accident. 
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AN OUTBREAK OF TEXAS FEVER IN CATTLE. 
By G. W. Browning, V.S., Huntsville, Ala. 
Having had the opportunity of seeing several cases of the 
above disease during the past summer, I concluded to write a 
few notes to the American Veterinary Review on the sub¬ 
ject. The first case I noticed was on the 5th of July of last 
year, and from that date the cattle continued to die with the dis¬ 
ease until no less than seventy-five or eighty had succumbed, 
and the malady lasted until the latter part of September, when 
we had a pretty good frost and then the disease ceased to exist. 
The tract of country where the disease existed, covered about 
four miles square, lying just out of the corporate limits of Hunts¬ 
ville. It is a low, flat land, having a white clay subsoil, or what 
is called crawfish lands, and lays outside, and there being no 
stock law in this county, nearly all the cattle from the city of 
Huntsville went out to feed on this vacant ground. Nearly all 
the cattle around here are of the Jersey breed, this being the 
