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FRED. EDWARDS. 
CASES IN PRACTICE, 
By Fred. Edwards, V.S. 
(Read at the Annual Meeting of the Iowa State Veterinary Medical Association.) 
Gentlemen. It is a pleasure to accept the privileges of 
this Association. I offer the following notes of cases which 
have occurred in my practice during the past year, and which 
I trust will be of interest. Before describing these cases, 
which are all of the same character, I would like to state that 
rather than make a mistake in my diagnosis before a body of 
practical men, I have left the nomenclature to you and trust 
you will enter into a thorough discussion. 
Case i. A bay mare, age three years, convalescing from 
an attack of strangles. Convalescence was interrupted by the 
occurrence of a certain set of symptoms which were not un¬ 
derstood by the owner, and I was called to see the case April 
i, 1890. I found the animal presenting the following condi¬ 
tions: normal pulse and temperature, good appetite, consti¬ 
pated bowel, very foetid breath, marked loss of the sensibility 
of the skin, partial loss of the power of co-ordination, which 
was much aggravated upon excitement. She moved forward 
with a staggering gait, making a more or less irregular line of 
progression to reach any desired point. She walked in a 
stamping sort of way and when in the act of lying down 
seemingly lost all control of her muscles after reaching a cer¬ 
tain point and went down precipitately or all in a heap, so to 
speak, not being able to get up again without assistance. She 
was unable to urinate, although constantly making efforts to 
do so, a condition which persisted to the termination of the 
disease. By the use of a catheter the bladder was relieved of 
a moderate quantity of highly colored urine. 
Not being familiar with the disease and finding no descrip¬ 
tion of it in my library, I did what most men do in such cir¬ 
cumstances—treated the symptoms. Gave oleum lini Oi at one 
dose and fl. ext. ergot and fl. ext. belladonna aa 3 1 every six 
hours; also applied a blister over the spine. Frequent reports 
from the owner informed me that the animal was getting no 
