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days and continued to improve until within a week it was normal. The 
calf was returned to Jefferson on March 9, 1914, since which time there 
has been no recurrence of the disease. 
CASE 8.—July 1, 1914. Three-year-old steer, grade Shorthorn, al¬ 
titude nine thousand two hundred feet, Divide, Colorado. History—One 
of a bunch of yearlings brought from Nebraska to an alaiaude of about 
eight thousand feet, near Manitou. Present owner bought them the 
spring previous and had lost one other steer similarly affected; been sick 
for four weeks. Symptoms—Brisket moderately swollen, no appetite, 
dull, thin, staring coat, swollen under the jaw; scouring badly but feces 
not black; respiration hurried. He was given a teaspoonful of fluid ex¬ 
tract of digitalis by the mouth on July 2 and 3. On the 4th he was given 
two doses of a teaspoonful each, one in the morning and one in the even¬ 
ing. On the 5th three doses were given. He grew steadily worse until 
some time during the night of the 5th, when he died. Post Mortem Ex¬ 
amination—Subcutaneous tissue markedly edematous throughout the reg¬ 
ion of the brisket, neck, intermaxillary space and over all four limbs; 
Cut No. V. Case VIII. Taken on July 2, 1914, at Divide, Colorado, 
three days before death. 
lungs collapsed in a few small areas, the left one showing a few hemor¬ 
rhages; tracheal and bronchial mucous membranes hemorrhagic; no 
parasites; a large quantity of fluid in the thorax; heart enlarged 
with thick walls; epicardium edematous; several gallons in the 
abdomen with all of the serous membrane and walls of the hollow viscera 
decidedly thickened with fluid; mucous membrane of fourth stomach and 
intestines reddened over entire area. Liver very dark, hard and en¬ 
larged, mottled on section; spleen normal and kidneys showing conges¬ 
tion. An abscess estimated as holding a pint of pus was found in the wall 
between the reticulum and the omasum; there was a blackened wire nail 
in it; it did not, however, extend through the diaphragm into the thorax. 
