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stop. Three years ago I was called to see a horse which was 
bleeding from one nostril, and had been bleeding for ten hours. 
I first injected in the nostril cold water, made cold application 
over the head, administered a dose of acetate of lead, tincture of 
iron, plugged the nostril with absorbent cotton and perchloride 
of iron. A few minutes later the blood came from the other 
nostril. I then practiced tracheotomy and plugged both nos¬ 
trils. About one half hour later the blood ran out from the 
tracheotomy tube. I removed the tube, the cotton from the 
nostrils and went three miles to get some fluid extract of ergot, 
of which I injected i c.c. in the trachea ; the blood continued to 
drop ; half an hour later I made another injection of i c.c. and 
ten minutes after the haemorrhage stopped. I waited over an 
hour, prescribed tonics for two weeks and my patient recovered. 
In concluding this paper I will say that the method of 
administering drugs by the trachea is another means which may 
in certain cases be advantageous and may render great service to 
the veterinary profession. 
REPORTS OF CASES. 
“ Careful observation makes a skillful practitioner, but his skill dies with hhn. By 
recording his observations, he adds to the knoivledge of his profession, and assists by his 
facts in building tip the solid edifice of pathological science B 
DID THESE HORSES HAVE CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS OR 
HYDROPHOBIA ? 
By C, C. Crane, V. S., Akron, Ohio. 
A contractor in this city owning about thirty horses, also 
owned a bulldog that acted strangely for two or three days, then 
seemed to develop hydrophobia. Nothing is positively known 
that the dog bit any of the horses, but he could have done so. 
The dog was killed on New Year’s morning. Since then three 
horses have died. First I was called, but being away, another 
veterinarian diagnosed the case as brain trouble. He did not 
tell me the temperature nor the pulse, but the man that took 
care of the horse told me the animal was down most of the time, 
but would get up when given medicine. The last five hours 
the horse lived he would snap and bite, but did not die on his 
