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as to their endurance of certain diseases. Let us, therefore, 
make anatomy, physiology and pathology our crowning 
studies and let us avail ourselves of every therapeutical aid 
offered us. Let us treat each other kindly, for at the most we 
only live a few days and we have enough trouble, the natural 
outgrowth of our business, to trouble us, let alone stirring up 
strife and contentions. I onlv wish I had the language to ex¬ 
press my feelings on this subject. I hope this article will be 
thoroughly dissected and inaccuracies and mistakes pointed 
out. 
“For never yet hath one attained 
To such perfection, but that time and peace 
And use have brought addition to his knowledge, 
Or made correction or admonished him, 
That he was ignorant of much which 
He had thought he knew, or led him to reject 
What he had once esteemed of highest price.” 
REPORTS OF CASES. 
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‘ STOMATITIS PUSTULOSA CONTAGIOSA ” IN A HORSE. 
By W. J. Torrance, Cleveland, O. 
About two months ago a neighboring horse dealer called 
my attention to what he called his trotting colt. He had con¬ 
sulted me some days before about the horse without showing 
him to me, and described small nodular swellings on different 
parts of the skin, but especially the face and fore extremities. 
He said that distemper had smouldered in the colt for two 
seasons, but never thoroughly developed itself. I recom¬ 
mended him to try a course of mineral alteratives and diuret¬ 
ics. In about a week he came to me again and said, “You 
had better look at that horse—those little pea-like lumps ap¬ 
pear to have been broken and have a black scabby surface— 
the colt has a persistent cough, runs at the nose and froths 
at the mouth.'’ 
I went to see the colt (a five-vear-old) and found matters 
as he described them and, moreover, there was an induration, 
enlargement and tenderness of the sub-maxillary glands. Up- 
