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RE PORTS OF OASES. 
ginning of the eighteenth century, the losses in Europe be¬ 
tween 1740 and 1750 to be 3,000,000 of cattle. In Denmark 
alone between 1745 and 1752, over 2,000,000 died. Up to the 
eighteenth century Germany lost 30,000,000 cattle. The loss 
of all Europe was 200,000,000. The immense losses sustained 
at that period were the cause of founding veterinary colleges. 
Lutz reports that in 1783 there were not less than 1,000 works 
on this disease. 
Athanasius Kirchner describes a disease among oxen in 
1617. The same disease attacked man, and 60,000 people 
died of the disease. 
REPORTS OF CASES. 
A SINGULAR CASE—WHAT WAS IT ? 
By De. G. A. Latheop, D.Y.S. 
The subject was one of those delicate breed of dogs known 
as Italian greyhounds. When first seen he was lying upon 
his mistress’s pillow, his head, one forward leg and one hind 
leg being moved spasmodically continually. I, of course, 
expected to receive a previous history of distemper, but upon 
asking for it, was surprised to be told that the dog previous 
to this had enjoyed perfect health. I then tried to obtain 
what history I could get, but with unsatisfactory results. All 
she knew about him was that the day before I was called he 
appeared lame in his right forward leg, and that now he was 
able to walk with the greatest difficulty, in fact, only crawled 
along. Upon examining him carefully I found that only the 
muscles of the right side were affected, the muscles of the 
left side being in a perfectly normal condition. The pectoral 
muscles of the right side were contracted to such an extent 
as to draw the right forward leg across the left forward leg, 
and he had no power to place it in a natural position, and if 
placed so it would be immediately drawn back again and all 
the time, together with all the muscles of the right side, were 
kept in a constant motion. Appetite was good and noticed 
things around him but seemed to have lost all power of co- 
