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REPORTS OF CASES. 
suddenly she comes to a stand, where she remains for hours, 
falling back into that state of coma, from which she fails to 
recover. 
Diagnosis :—Vegetable poisoning. 
Treatment :—I treat the symptoms, giving digitalis and 
liquor arsenicalis, three or four times per day, after a purgative 
of Epsom salts. 
I have had very good results from this treatment when I get 
the case at the outset, but after four to five hours my success is 
marked by the great number of deaths. 
I find this trouble • exists in certain localities, many animals 
from the same pasture or neighboring pastures. I have had 
the animals removed with good results. 
Again, veterinarians, am I right when I say those animals are 
poisoned by some herbage found in the pasture lands ? Answer, 
if you please. I am using the veterinary columns for informa¬ 
tion. 
PURPURA TREATED BY ANTISTREPTOCOCCUS SERUM. 
By W. G. Hollingworth, D. V. S., Utica, N. Y. 
I wish to report a case of purpura hsemorrhagia which oc¬ 
curred in a bay gelding that had just made a good recovery from 
pneumonia, but under very poor hygienic surroundings. One 
day the owner discovered' some small swellings, but paid no at¬ 
tention to them until they were very large. The horse could 
not move, so he sent for me. The diagnosis being easy, I pre¬ 
scribed in the regular way. I told him that I had ordered some 
antitoxin, and, as soon as it arrived, would proceed with the 
new treatment. When I arrived at my office it was there. The 
next morning I made an early call, and was sick, so to speak. 
I found my patient in great agony, swelling all gone, and com¬ 
mencing to have fluid discharges from the bowels, mixed with 
some food. My opinion was asked and it was unfavorable. The 
owner said he would not give five cents for his life, but I made 
up my mind to try the serum. I first gave a hypodermic of 
morphine, then left a hypodermic syringe to be kept disinfected 
and to give lo c. c. of the serum once in three hours till I came 
again. His temperature was 105°, pulse 96, respiration 36. I 
called at 5 P. M., and found my patient in not so much pain ; con¬ 
tinued the serum treatment, once in three hours, through the 
night, and left cannabis indica to relieve the pain. Next morning 
when I called my patient was better, almost free from pain, 
faeces fluid and slightly bloody ; inclined to eat hay, but would 
