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standing in the hog yard, then turned the horses in a pasture 
adjoining. On getting up Sunday morning the boys went out 
to find both horses in the hog yard, filled with eorn, standing to 
one side, apparently satisfied with a big meal. As the horses 
did not appear siek the boys turned them back into the pasture, 
thinking, they said, that ^it would be all right. Monday they 
noticed the horses were languid, but still trusted all would be 
well. Tuesday they noticed the animals laying around at dif¬ 
ferent places in the pasture, but supposed they were just lazy, 
thinking that the danger point had surely passed, and at night 
stabled them for use the next day. But, lo ! on Wednesday 
morning they found both horses unable to rise and in great 
pain. This was the signal for ealling aid, and when I called 
found both animals as above described and with the aforesaid 
history. Diagnosis .—Engorgement with laminitis accompany¬ 
ing. TreaUnejit. —Eserine, gr. i, injected per trachea ; cold 
bandages to the feet and salicylate of sodium, one dram every 
three hours. Both these horses were upon their feet by noon, 
when they were stood in mud the greater part of the afternoon 
and for an hour or two each day for several days. One of these 
horses was put to work the next week and has remained all 
right ever since, the other one, a heavier animal, is tender¬ 
footed and always will be, I presume, as his hoofs are very 
brittle, and split and break easily, although with careful shoe¬ 
ing he is doing good service. 
Case V .—A bay steer being fed for market would walk 
about with head erected high in the air and nose protruded. 
Continued in this manner for three days, when the owner found 
him with head down to the ground, with nose still protruded, 
and seemingly unable to raise his head or partake of food. At 
this time, October 23d last, I was called and found the animal 
in the last above-described position. In addition found dis¬ 
charges from nose and eyes and a stiff gait. This animal was 
very ugly about being handled, therefore I neglected taking 
pulse and temperature. Diagnosis .—Ox distemper, with com¬ 
plication of neuralgia of neck and head. Treatment .—Kalinin 
