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ion of rouget they sicken in from one to six days, the average 
being from two to four days. When inoculated some were sick 
the same day; the average incubation was, according to Cagny, 
less than twenty-four hours, and according to Lydtin less than 
forty-eight hours. The period of incubation consequently differs 
remarkably in the European disease from what is seen in our 
hog cholera. 
2d. Duration of Disease .—Animals affected with hog cholera 
are usually sick from one to two weeks before they die. Occa¬ 
sionally the plague is more rapid in its course and death occurs 
within three or four days, but the average period of sickness is 
not less than eight or ten days. With rouget , according to 
Lydtin, the animals are only sick from thirty-six to sixty hours, 
or an average of about two days. Here again we see a most 
remarkable difference between the two diseases. 
As this letter is already long I will take up other points of 
difference in another communication. 
{To be continued .) 
AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
HOSPITAL KECOPDS. 
By R. Weik, D.Y.S., House Surgeon. 
ADENITIS AND ITS RESULTS. 
On Sunday morning, April 11th, 1886, there came under my 
observation a chestnut gelding, eight years of age, fifteen hands 
two inches high, that had been discharged about ten days ago, as 
convalescing from an attack of pleuro-pneumonia. 
The symptoms now exhibited were noisy breathing, discharge 
of a purulent character from both nostrils, swollen and painful 
intermaxillary glands, temperature 104 2-6 degrees F., respirations 
and pulse almost normal in number, and almost complete loss of 
appetite: upon which a diagnosis of adenitis was made, and the 
following treatment given: Fomentations and hot poultices to 
the enlarged glands, fumigations of steam; all to be continued 
until the abscesses were all opened. Administered internally 
stimulants three times a day. 
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