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maxillary glands and cough by about a week. All of these 
animals, however, had had a touch of the influenza cough in 
the spring. In none of these cases was there more than a 
slight premonitory or concomitant elevation of temperature. 
I directed the treatment of this case to the local lesions 
which were positively severe, giving oft-repeated gargles of a 
solution of tr. ferri. chlor. pot. chlor. and glycerine for about 
ten days, and then followed it with lig. arcenicalis and bitter 
tonics. Pits or depressions on the dentate surface of the 
gums, exactly like the “ human small-pox pits,” remained for a 
short period and completely disappeared, and all to whom I 
showed these cases said the horses smelled like “mice,” but 
the symptoms upon the skin were positively dissimilar to those 
of “ equina variola,” and the nasal nodules and ulcers bore no 
resemblance to those of “ glanders.” 
The limbs were not affected much below the knees or 
hocks, and the hind limbs were less affected than the fore. 
Some of the cutaneous swellings, however, became large and 
confluent with some oedema of the limbs, with a “ collar ” at 
its upper border, and with these conditions in the next case, 
there was a bonaftde- like appearance of the nasal membranes 
which made me fear purpura as a complication, or as a prim¬ 
ary affection in an obscure form, as I had once before seen it 
run a similar course. 
The next and last case, which I shall briefly describe, was 
also put out of the same barn and adjacent stall as the one 
above described. It was a case where purpura and farcy posi¬ 
tively threatened to appear at any moment, and every morn¬ 
ing the horse was the picture of a ‘‘spotted leopard”—the 
sub-cutaneous lymphatics especially (from lips to hind feet) be¬ 
ing delineated and spotted more perfectly than pen or paint 
can describe. By noon each day these conditions almost en¬ 
tirely disappeared, and after a couple of weeks every symptom 
of contagious stomatitis appeared and ran its definite and 
specific course, ending in complete recovery; but while the 
disease was hanging fire in this case, i. e., prior to ulceration, 
farcy buds in the lymphatics would almost mature and suppu¬ 
rate, would rapidly disappear, to be suddenly replaced by the 
swellings, etc. of the purpura. 
