REPORTS OF CASES. 
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I DEATH FROM INTERNAL H.T:mORRHAGE, THE REvSULT 
OF STRONGYLUS TETRACANTHUS. 
By E. M. Nighbert, V. S., Mt. Sterling, Ill. 
A standard-bred weanling was housed and well eared for, as 
he was poor, but apparently in fair health. He was well pro¬ 
vided for in the way of a nice box stall, regularly exercised 
and had good food. -This treatment was kept up for five or six 
weeks with little or no signs of improvement. Patient ate well 
and at times was lively. 
The evening before his death he ate his feed, and on return¬ 
ing to feed next morning the colt refused to eat and appeared 
very dull, suffering from pain, and would lie'down and get up, 
having at the same time bloody discharges from the bowels. At 
this time I was sent for and examined the patient at 12.30 p. m. 
I found there was pain, marked wasting and severe intestinal 
irritation. 
I had the patient rise from his recumbent position, and after 
a few moments a discharge took place from his bowels saturated 
with blood. I diagnosed the case as haemorrhage of the bowels 
fiom some cause, and that life was limited to but a few hours. 
Death took place at 4.30 p. m. 
Autopsy revealed a large aneurism of the anterior mesenteric 
artery with several strongyli armatus and millions of neihatoid 
worms covering the mucous membrane of the caecnm and colon 
and extending through the small intestines. Near the ilio-caecal 
valve a large ulcer was noticed. At this point haemorrhage took 
place, which was the immediate cau.se of death. 
These parasites that were so numerous are identical with 
the strongylus tetracanthus described by Prof. J. T. Duncan, in 
his book entitled “ Internal Parasites of the Horse,” page 68. 
This is the first case under my observation of these 
parasites. I am now treating another patient out of the same 
herd for parasites, doubtless the strongylus tetracanthus, as they 
are numerous at times in the discharges from the bowels. 
B Four at a Birth.— Thomas H. Merritt, the well-known 
■ farmer of the town of Ulster, who has a dairy of thirty-six cows, 
# conducted by his son, Jacob Merritt, has a Holstein cow that on 
V January 3 gave birth to four male calves. The calves were not 
W fully developed, and died soon after birth. The birth of 
S four calves at a time is something almost unheard of, Mr. Mer- 
M ritt says.— (^Kingston^ N. K, Fi'eejiian^ Jan. d, i 8 gp.) 
