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REPORTS OF CASES. 
REPORTS OF CASES. 
PARASITIC BRONCHITIS.* 
By Sidney D. Meyers, V.S., Wilmington, Ohio. 
During the afternoon of Jan. lo, 1897, my advice was sought 
by a Mr. C. regarding some yearling calves which he owned. 
He stated that about September they commenced to run down 
in flesh, and that out of a bunch of sixteen, six had already 
died, while two more were down and could not get up. He also 
said that his lambs, which had been running in the same field, 
were dying off. I at once suspected parasitic trouble, and being 
unable to go to his place that afternoon I informed him that I 
would call the next day and kill one of the calves that was 
down, and hold an autopsy. When I arrived next day the 
owner directed his men to tie a rope to the calf’s leg and drag it 
out of the barn. I beheld a pitiful sight, the calf, greatly 
emaciated and besmeared with excrement, was too weak to raise 
its head. After killing the animal and opening the thoracic 
and abdominal cavities, my attention was first attracted to the 
lungs by what appeared to be several hepatized islands. I re¬ 
moved the lungs from their cavity and proceeded to examine 
them. 
The trachea contained a quantity of frothy mucous, the bron¬ 
chi and bronchial tubes were partially filled with a purulent vis¬ 
cous exudate, in which I found numerous strongyli. Besides 
these lesions, centres of lobular pneumonia were also observed, 
which was produced by an extension of inflammation to the 
pulmonary tissue, and which accounts for the hepatized islands 
observed on the external surface. 
I then examined the other organs, all of which were anaemic. 
The contents of the bowels were more fluid than they should 
have been ; otherwise nothing of interest was observed. 
Having finished, Mr. C.’s first question was: “ Can you do 
anything for the balance ? ” This I declined to answer until I 
saw the rest of the bunch, which I found in an adjoining field 
with no shelter but a small straw rick. The other calf that was 
down had managed to get up. They were all standing around 
with arched backs, hair turned the wrong way and presenting in 
general a very unthrifty appearance. Some had diarrhoea, others 
* Read at the Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Veterinary Medical Association, at 
^ Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 28, 1897. 
