REPORTS OF CASES. 
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to evacuate the bowels had become less frequent, the attempts 
to urinate ceased, and the animal stood with head -down, lips 
somewhat swollen, eyes closed, and tongue lolled out. Respira¬ 
tion, temperature and pulse same as at 6.30. At 7.30 p. m., 
same symptoms. Did not administer any medicine. 8 P. M., 
some straining. Gave more morphine and some whiskey, no 
potassa. 9 P. M., no straining, no pain, no medicine. 9.30 P. 
M., pulse 40, respiration 20, temperature 103!^—same time 
that the other horse without any treatment died. The animal 
continued to improve. I saw her until i a. m., when she was 
placed in a box stall. I saw her again at 5.30. She stood with 
head down, lips swollen. At 9 A. m. the pulse was 40, respira¬ 
tion 20, temperature 102°. Was given mucilaginous drink, 
cooked oats, green grass. Did not move around much during 
the day. The urine was quite dark in color, did not void any 
fgecal matter at all ; foetor of the breath was not so well marked. 
At 5 P. M., she drank four quarts of water, ate a pmtof oatmeal 
and a little grass. Left her for the night—pulse 40, respiration 
18, temperature 101''. The next morning at 9.30 I saw her. 
Swelling had gone down about head and lips, looked bright, 
ate and drank fairly well; was turned out in the lot and has 
improved every day until now. She appears well with the ex¬ 
ception of a few ulcers on lips and nose. 
Now, the questions that arise in my mind are: “ Do bee stings 
in large quantities act like cantharides poisoning, or does some 
chemical change occur that paralyzes the nerve centres after the 
irritating action has passed off? Did the potassa have anything 
to do with counter-acting the action of the poison, or did the 
morphine stop the nervous irritation, if such existed, or did the 
whiskey stimulate enough to bridge over the critical point, or 
was not the old worn-out horse as susceptible to the action of 
the poison as a strong healthy one ? ” 
THE VETERINARIAN AND THE CAT. 
By Francis Abp:t.e, V. S., Quincy. Mass. 
Was asked to see a black gelded eat, 9 years old, that had bit¬ 
ten a man in the calf from no provocation whatever. Just pre¬ 
viously it had bitten the man’s housekeeper in the arm. 
Cat was in the cellar. I marched down with a saucer of 
milk, to see her try to drink. She mewed, straightened her tail 
as if glad to see me and I proceeded past her on the cellar steps. 
I had just reached the cellar floor and was putting the milk 
down when she sprang at my calf and fastened her teeth and 
