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REPORTS OF OASES. 
Its virulence is increased by anything which tends to cause 
natural increase in size of the glands in and around the throat 
and hind legs, notably hard water, or water containing much 
alkali. Highly bred stock, by reason of its peculiar liability 
to take on glandular enlargement, is more affected and the 
disease runs a more severe course. If properly attended to 
under sound medical and surgical treatment, most cases re¬ 
cover absolutely. If not properly attended to, or the causes 
predisposing to excessive virulence are not removed, the ef¬ 
fects of the disease are either death from pyasmia, or a chronic 
condition of the nasal passages so much like glanders as to 
deceive anyone unless the history of the case is known or a 
post mortem examination made. Most decidedly the disease 
is not glanders, and it is important that this fact be appre¬ 
ciated at once. 
REPORTS OF CASES, 
“Careful observation makes a skill fid practitioner, but his skill dies with Mm. 
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. - 
PROLAPSUS VAGINA AND RECTUM. 
By Dr. H. Fulstow, V S., Norwalk, O. 
Some time ago I was called to see a two-year-old Jersey 
heifer that was due to calve in eight days. Upon my arrival 
I found the patient running in a barn-yard with a small shed 
in it for her to run in, but which had got so filled up with 
manure that it was impossible for her to go in without 
scringing down, and when in she had to scringe in order to 
stand without her back touching the floor above. On exami¬ 
nation found the vagina out as large as a man’s head, and very 
much inflamed and thickened/and covered with filth, and a 
cut in it about three inches, which was bleeding ; also rectum 
protruding about four inches. Upon inquiry found that 
vagina had been in and out for three weeks every day or two, 
and they had kept putting it back, but this time it was so large 
