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dark-colored, having an ammoniacal smell, and semi-fluid con¬ 
gestion of lungs, clots of dark blood on both sides of the 
heart; the bladder filled with dark coffee-colored urine, and 
sometimes softening of the liver and kidney.” 
Congestion of the sheaths of the great gluteal nerves has 
been present in some cases in which the spinal cord at the 
lumbar region has been found red, congested and softened, 
but in others these appearances have been absent, the spasm 
and the loss of power being due to the effect of the altered 
blood on the muscular tissue. 
Thanking you, Mr. President and gentlemen, for your 
kind attention, I trust you will make all due allowances for 
discrepancies and errors, only hoping that I have advanced 
some new idea in the pathology and treatment of this import¬ 
ant disease. 
Bibliography. — Professor Williams’s “Veterinary Medi¬ 
cines Dr. Shepherd on “ Hyposulphite of Sodas,” and Fin¬ 
lay Dunn. 
REPORTS OF CASES. 
“Careful observation makes a skillful practitioner, but his skill dies with him. 
By recording his observations he adds to the knowledge of his profession , and assists 
by his facts in building up the solid edifice of pathological science .”— Veterinary 
Record. 
ENTERO-PERITONITIS DUE TO ASCARIS MEGALOCEPHALA. 
By Clarence Mills, Y.S., Mt. Palatine, Ill. 
I herewith send a report of a case which proved quite in¬ 
teresting to me, and although I have reason to believe that 
such cases in a milder form may not be very rare, yet it sur¬ 
passed anything of its nature I have witnessed in a post-mor¬ 
tem. If you think it worthy, you may publish it. 
The case was one of entero-peritonitis, induced primarily 
by the presence, in a large section of the small intestine, of mul¬ 
titudes of the parasites, ascaris megalocephala. The history 
of the case, as I got it from the owner, was as follows: 
The patient was a ten-months-old standard bred filly, 
