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appetite greatly impaired. I now prescribed stimidants and 
dinretics and continued the quinine as before. May 30, tem¬ 
perature 105° F., appetite gone, hurried respirations and great 
languor. I now realized I had a desperate case, with a rapid 
decomposition of the blood, and with such a point in view pre¬ 
scribed salicylate of sodium, one dram, every three hours, dis¬ 
solved in water, and continued the remedies of the day before. 
]May 31st, found great improvement. Pulse much stronger and 
slower, temperature down to 103° F., the animal partaking of a 
little food, and paid more attention to his surroundings. From 
this time on there was a rapid recovery. The salicylate was 
continued for three days. 
Case II .—Was called to see a bay gelding, seven years old^ 
weighing about 1200 pounds; he was lying in his stall, with 
legs and feet protruded, and groaning as if in great distress, but 
makinof no stmeeles. Told the owner to drive the beast to his 
feet, which he did after much persuasion, but the animal imme¬ 
diately lay down again’. While getting up he appeared as if in 
great pain, which seemed to be located in the feet, and was very 
stiff. Hoofs were very hot and a light tap upon them made 
the horse wince with pain. On inquiry found the animal 
had been running in a pasture with hogs which were being fed 
for market. Had been in said pasture for about six weeks eat¬ 
ing all the corn he wished and whenever he wished, being dis¬ 
turbed only at such times as he was wanted to be driven about 
six miles to town for the farmer’s mail. Diagnosis. —Fngorge- 
ment, with acute laminitis accompanying. Treatment. —Socco- 
trine aloes, one ounce, given at one dose as a bolus, followed by 
salicylate of sodium, one dram, every three hours for three days. 
This animal went to work the fifth day as one of a team to pick 
corn, and has been all right ever since, with no stiffness, nor 
bad feet. 
Cases III. and IV .—Was called to the farm of Mr. H., who 
was at the time in Iowa. His boys, aged about 14 and 16 re¬ 
spectively, had on the Saturday preceding my visit picked a 
load of corn for feeding their hogs over Sunday and left it 
