166 SPLENIC APOPLEXY IN A DAIRY OF MILCH COWS. 
owners were yesterday killing oft tlieir curs. There is a 
general demand that the police shall commence a raid upon 
the canines, which shall not end while a dog is suffered to 
go at large in the city or surrounding country.” 
[These extracts from the Detroit Free Press are so charac¬ 
teristic of the sensational style of writing which our trans¬ 
atlantic cousins indulge in, that we have not hesitated to give 
them in eoctenso .— Eds.] 
REPORT OF AN OUTBREAK OF SPLENIC APO¬ 
PLEXY IN A DAIRY OF MILCH COWS (the 
property of Mr. Clare, Hampson Farm, Bolton, Lan¬ 
cashire) . 
By Alfred Challinor, M.R.C.Y.S., Bolton. 
The particulars of this outbreak of that singular disease 
known as splenic apoplexy are briefly these. On Saturday, 
January 6th, the herdsman, on making his usual nightly 
round at eight o’clock, found all the animals apparently 
healthy, but on his again visiting the sheds at half past five 
the next morning one of the cows was found dead and lying 
near to a pool of blood of from two to three gallons in 
amount, which had evidently come from the rectum. 
I was at once sent for, but before my arrival another cow 
had died quite as suddenly, she having also parted with a 
quantity of blood from the bowels when in articulo mortis. 
On making a post-mortem examination I found the lungs, 
liver, and especially the small intestines highly congested, the 
latter containing much “ spoilt blood” of a deep purple or 
black colour. The spleen was also very much distended with 
blood of the same kind, being four or five times its normal 
size. The mesenteric glands were in a similar condition. 
The stomach contained a fair quantity of food, and did not 
present any unusual appearance. 
The affected viscera were forwarded to Professor Simonds 
for his examination, and opinion of the nature of the disease. 
This he kindly gave, having come to the conclusion that the 
animals had died from well-marked attacks of splenic apoplexy. 
The food on which the cows had been kept consisted of 
hay-chaff, bran, linseed, linseed-cake, palm nut-cake, “ malt- 
combings,” and bean-flour, with a fair allowance of hay. 
Rather a strong diet, even for cows yielding a full flow of milk. 
I at once ordered a dose of aperient medicine for each of 
the remaining animals (twenty-eight in number), and gave 
