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EDITORIAL. 
may be produced by the intravenous injection of the blood or 
serum from a diseased animal. 
The geographical range of the disease, which is at times 
quite sporadic, appears to be common to all parts of South 
Africa, and has been met with as far north as Massowah on the 
Red Sea, although it is in Cape Colony, Natal, Rhodesia and 
the veldt plains of the Transvaal that the disease is most com¬ 
mon and often rages with the utmost virulence. 
The disease usually makes its appearance about the middle 
of February, but does not reach the acme of its virulence until 
the latter part of March and the beginning of April. The 
frightful mortality list of this disease is simply appalling, often 
but a few hours of infection (2 to 10) being sufficient to cause 
the death of an apparently healthy horse. From the reports of 
cavalry and transport officers in the field, we learn that some¬ 
times as high as 98 per cent, of the horses attacked in certain 
camps have succumbed to the disease. 
The disease makes its appearance under several distinct 
forms: That affecting the lungs and pleurae (paard ziekte') ; sec¬ 
ond, a phlegmonous inflammation of the head (< dikop , or “thick 
head”), which often swells to an enormous extent; third, in 
which the tongue becomes so swollen that it cannot be retained 
in the mouth (blue tongue). There is also an enteric form 
characterized by severe abdominal pain and enteritis. During 
the progress of the disease there is marked venous and arterial 
congestion ; respiration hurried, from 80 to 100 per minute; 
temperature ranges from 105 to 107° F. There is a profuse 
outpouring of mucous and serum from the bronchial tubes, and 
in some cases so profuse is this discharge that death from suffo¬ 
cation rapidly ensues. The period of incubation averages from 
eight to ten days. W. J. M. 
THE RECENT ARMY EXAMINATIONS. 
In order to fill the remaining few vacancies of veterinarians 
in the U. S. Cavalry, army examinations were recently held at 
different military posts throughout the States. The examina- 
