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REPORTS OF CASES. 
INFECTIOUS PNEUMONIA IN NORTH CAROLINA. 
By J. W. Petty, V. S., Greensboro, N. C. 
I was sent by the North Carolina Board of Agriculture on 
March 26th, to investigate an outbreak of what proved to be in¬ 
fectious pneumonia, at Summerfield, N. C. A post-mortem 
was held on one gelding that had died, and the lungs showed 
circumscribed cavities, some of which contained gangrenous 
fluid, others pus, and some broken-down lung tissue, all of 
which illustrated the different stages of the disease and the pro¬ 
gress made upon different parts of the lungs. All the animals 
that had been sick for ten days died. Three horses were at this 
time in the congestive stage, and two had elevated temperatures, 
cough, loss of appetite, and restlessness, and some had profuse 
diarrhoea, while others again were constipated. All the sick and 
exposed animals were at once quarantined, the sick being treated 
with acetanilid as required to control fever, muriate of ammonia, 
cinchona, whiskey, and other stimulants as indicated, with due 
attention to the regulation of the bowels, ventilation, clothing, 
etc. The exposed ones were isolated and treated with prophy¬ 
lactics, only one of them contracting the disease. All made 
good recoveries with the exception of slight abdominal breath¬ 
ing as a result of the cavities in the lungs. 
HERMAPHRODISM. 
By J. A. Couture, V. S., Quebec. 
On July 7th last, a curious case of so-called hermaphrodism 
was brought to my notice. It was a Canadian pony, about 15 
hands, twelve years old, very nice looking animal, bred and 
owned since birth by a farmer living in the mountains of the 
County of Charleroix, in the Province of Quebec. 
The subject had a pair of normal inguinal testes, which gave 
issue to a yellowish liquid when drawn by the fingers. In ex¬ 
ploring the inguinal region I felt near the inguinal rings two 
testicles, the size of a hen’s egg; these testicles were floating 
and might be either drawn up close to the ring or let down. 
The anus was much smaller than the normal. Looking at a 
distance, when the animal’s tail was kept elevated, one would 
think that he had a normal vulva, though much longer than 
usual. By a closer examination it could be seen that this part 
was closed, divided by a raphse, like the scrotum, and opened 
only at the bottom part by an opening measuring one and one- 
