AN UNCLASSIFIED DISEASE OF CATTLE. 
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AN UNCLASSIFIED DISEASE OF CATTLE. 
By T. B. Newby, D.V.S., Pana, Ill. 
(A paper read before the Illinois State Veterinary Medical Association.) 
On May 2, 1892, I was called to Lakewood, Ill., to examine 
ten head of yearling - steers thought to be suffering from rabies. 
As we drove out from the railroad station, my patron, Mr. W_, 
informed me that he had bought the stock from a farmer living 
some miles below on a broken timber farm, and that they had 
been poorly fed and cared for during the winter, and conse¬ 
quently when purchased were badly nourished. Seven head 
were shown me showing no outward signs of disease, otherwise 
than slight stiffness and being somewhat nervous. Then one 
cadaverous subject of same herd, that had been dead and buried 
for two days, was exhumed for post-mortem examination. 
Whether rigor mortis had been present or not, it was wanting 
now ; neither had any post-mortem degeneration taken place. 
Neither were there any gases in the abdomen, only signs of 
disease shown in any of the abdominal viscera, rectum oma¬ 
sum and duodenum ; the two latter were empty, except a 
glossy mucous secretion. The remainder of the bowels were 
nearly empty, but rectum mucous membrane was inflamed, dark, 
and contained a little faecal matter; rumen reticulum and 
abomasum contained considerable food, which seemed to be ar¬ 
rested by impaction of third campart, yet not bad enough to 
warrant any such conclusion. Air chambers and mucous mem¬ 
brane of superior maxilla were inflamed throughout. For want 
of adequate instruments, brain and spinal cord were not exam¬ 
ined, but Dr. G. A. Johnson, of Sioux City, la., having consider¬ 
able experience with this disease, fully describes the condition 
of the brain, which I quote from American Veterinary Review , 
Volume XVIII., page 274. When these were opened, marked 
lesions of inflammation, especially the brain and all the mem¬ 
branes, particularly the pia-mater, showed marked inflamed 
