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showing numerous abscesses in different parts of the body. The 
injection of heated pus in small doses did not influence the course 
of the disease and the animal died from sepsis. 
Case No. 7.—Bay gelding, brewery draft horse, suffering 
from a nail prick that had caused a separation around the coronet, 
great pain, high fever, no weight on foot. No microscopical ex~ 
animation of the discharge was made. This case took four doses 
of the heated pus before recoverey became complete in five weeks. 
Case No. 8.—Bay gelding; coronet, pastern and fetlock, one 
suppurating mass due to a punctured wound in foot. Discharge 
of purulent synovia from original wound. No microscopical ex¬ 
amination made. This case was fed with the purulent discharge 
from the leg and all the suppurating and necrotic areas be¬ 
gan to heal, and parts were perfectly healed in five weeks, ex¬ 
cept a slight discharge of non-purulent synovia from the bottom 
of the hoof. All the digital articulations had become ankylosed 
and the animal was destroyed. 
Case No. 9.—Gray gelding, a deep punctured wound reaching 
down to the coxofemoral articulation; yielded very rapidly to the 
administration of the crude pus per os. 
Case No. 10.—Gray gelding, of a large heavy draft type, 
cellulitis of the entire right hind leg, apparently starting from a 
calloused area on the anterior surface of the pastern. The part 
was washed and hair clipped and a moist antiseptic dressing ap¬ 
plied for twenty-four hours. Then the callous was raised off 
completely and the pure pus caught in a wide mouth bottle. A 
pure strain of streptococci was shown under the miscroscope. 
This discharge was filtered through the Berkefeld filter and only 
two injections were necessary to bring about a cure. 
Case No. 11.—Gray mare (green), had been suffering from a 
very severe attack of influenza of the fulminating type. The 
attack under the regular treatment ran a very tedious course, 
until finally the temperature remained stationary at 102 degrees 
F., pulse 60, and the animal refused to eat or drink and was in 
this condition for three days, when small petechia appeared in 
the left nostril; eight distinct petechia were counted. In the right 
