AOTES ON THE StJLFHATE OF ESERINE. Off 
These are all the cases of this kind which have come un¬ 
der my immediate notice, but I have heard of several similar 
ones in or near Tipton, which have terminated much like my 
cases. 
From these I have formed the following conclusions: 
ist. This disease attacks young animals only and might 
be called a disease of growth. 
2d. That females are more susceptible to this malady 
than males. 
3d. Hereditary influence plays some part in the suscepti¬ 
bility to this disease. 
4th. This disease simulates several others, but can be dis¬ 
tinguished from each. They are scrofulous ostitis (omphalo 
phlebitis) motor paralysis, spinal meningitis. 
, It differs from scrofulous ostitis in there being no pervious 
urachus, the power to micturate being present in one and ab¬ 
sent in the other. 
It differs from motor paralysis in there being a loss of co¬ 
ordination and gradual loss of motion rather than sudden and 
complete parasis. 
It differs from spinal meningitis in the absence of pain con¬ 
sequent upon motion or concussion of the spinal vertebrae, the 
absence of febrile disturbances. The occular symptoms and 
the clinical history are quite different. 
Gentlemen, these are my cases and my deductions. You 
may readily make a diagnosis; I find it a difficult task. 
NOTES ON THE SULPHATE OF ESERINE, 
By S. B. Nelson, D.V.M. 
(Read before the Iowa State Veterinary Medical Association). 
Gentlemen :—In reponse to a request by vour Secretary I 
have collected a few clinical notes on eserine, for presenta¬ 
tion to this honorable body. 
It has been advocated by some writers that eserine sul¬ 
phate caused copious watery dejections in the horse, and as 
my experience has not confirmed this theory, I wish to call 
