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REPORTS OF CASES. 
gether. This mare I saw three days after, or just before she 
died. (Two others in the same stable having begun quidding 
their food occasioned my being called.) I had no chance of 
conversing with the horse doctor, as he cleared out, bag and 
baggage, when I arrived on the ground. 
1 made an examination of the aged filly, and found hurried 
respiration, pulse 70, temperature 108° ; ordered her destroyed, 
which was neglected three hours, when she died ; there did 
not seem to be any stiffness of the jaws. 
The examination of seven-year brown horse proved as 
follows: respiration about normal, pulse 38, temperature 
104 7-8°; deathly coldness of hind limbs, with trembling of 
some. 
Examination of the other horse found pulse 38, respiration 
about normal, also temperature about ioo°, with no stiffness 
of the jaws in either case, but quite some paralysis of the 
tongue ; seemed to chew very slowly, but did not have the 
power to work the food back to swallow it; bowels of each 
very much constipated. 
After taking all the facts into consideration, I made no hesi¬ 
tancy in diagnosing all the cases as “spinal meningitis,” and 
at once began treatment for same, and ordered entire change of 
food and drink for every animal on the farm ; there were some 
seven or eight on the place that were not affected; changed 
all well animals to other quarters, disinfected all the stables 
with thymo cresol, and gave all a cathartic of burnt aloes, 8 
drachms. 
I visited the place again yesterday ; had more time to ex¬ 
amine the food fed formerly. The oats were gathered during 
the heavy rains of last July, and is the worst lot I ever saw, 
and is not fit to feed to sparrows ; the hay is very bright; I 
picked up some samples from the hay loft; part of each I send 
you. 
The stock was watered from a well near the barn ; water 
is very hard ; the soil is what is known as red shell; the well 
is driven through rock of this kind ; the water we are now 
using is from the cistern at the house. The horses are im¬ 
proving under treatment, and no new cases are developing. 
