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he veterinary profession will, no doubt, anxiously look for a 
ifinitive and positive answer to the query, whether the diseases 
•e the same. If they are not identical, of course the virus of 
asteur from one cannot answer for the other, but if they are not 
verse, what reason can be imagined for the failure of Dr. Sal- 
on in both of his experiments, if it is not accounted for by the 
je of the virus ? 
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ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
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DISEASES OF THE HEART IN DOMESTIC ANIMALS, 
ESPECIALLY THE HORSE. 
By Fe. Blazekovio. 
(Translated by J. G. Meyer, Sr., V.S.) 
Continued from 'page 58. 
Diseases of the Valves and Ostium. 
Inflammation of the valves occurs very rarely independently 
ostly in consequence of endocarditis. Symptoms indicating iu- 
unmation of the valve are ; continued fever with a high temp- 
ature of the body, a quick, hard, intermittent pulse, and some- 
nes difficult breathing, though only if associated with other 
seases of the heart. 
Auscultation and the cardiac sounds, which no doubt chancre at 
ery alteration of any valve, give excellent physical signs for the 
agnosis. Inflammations which disturb the function of the valves 
id produce roughness of the same, will by reason of the current 
blood cause friction and murmurs. .Respecting these appear- 
ices, I advise their close scrutiny in defects of the valve in 
ineral. Undoubtedly, sufficient factors exist in the organism 
inch can call forth abnormities of the valves. As we have al- 
ady seen in the preceding chapter, these are generally similar 
the products of inflammation, hence an inflammation of the 
i Ues is no rare occurrence. It, however, often escapes observa- 
>n, and is not recognized until it is a developed defect of the 
lve. 
