REPORTS OF CASES. 
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the right condyle of the occipital bone was fractured. I 
think the dog could have lived, as seventy-two hours after 
the accident he was apparently in good health. 
OUTBREAK OF SPINAL MENINGITIS. 
By A. W. Axford, V.S. 
I was called on Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 7th, to the farm 
of Edward Emmons, near Pottersville, Hunterdon County, 
N. J., the owner having requested me to come Out there to 
see his horses, a singular and thus far fatal disease having 
broken out among his farm horses. The history of the cases 
described by him are as follows: 
On New Year’s day he drove two of them to Morristown 
and back, about twenty miles each way. Got home quite 
late; horses were very warm and sweaty when put in stable; 
waited until they were quite cool, then gave them their regu¬ 
lar allowance of food and water. Food, four quarts oats (as 
sample) with hay, timothy and red top (as samples sent). 
About midnight he heard noise in stable, and on going there 
found one of them down and struggling hard with forward 
feet, with sweat pouring off in streams. He called a local 
horse doctor, who said the trouble was colic, the result of an 
overdrive, and treated for same; before morning the horse 
died. 
Their attention was then called to the mate. A trembling 
was noticed in the hind limbs, and stiffness of the jaws; in 
less than one hour he fell down, and struggled violently with 
his forward legs, going round in a circle until death ended 
his sufferings two days after. 
Before the second horse died the owner noticed an aged 
filly in the same stable seemed to have difficulty in chewing 
her food ; would take in a mouthful of hay, chew it very 
slowly, then quid it out in a ball. The doctor said it was a 
good thing he had noticed it so early, as there would be no 
difficulty in keeping her on her feet by giving proper treat¬ 
ment. But soon after she began sinking down on her hind 
limbs, great trembling of limbs, and at last went down alto- 
