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ously (behind left shoulder) from first culture on agar agar. 
Sixty hours afterward the rabbit was found dead. Post-mortem 
showed inflammation and gelatinous infiltration (no pus forma¬ 
tion) about two inches in diameter, surrounding the point of 
inoculation and extending throughout the thickness of the 
costal wall ; visceral organs and blood were normal. Two agar 
agar cultures were made from different points in the inflamed 
sub-cutaneous tissue, as far as practicable from the point of in¬ 
oculation. Both tubes developed pure cultures of the organism 
first isolated. 
This stud) 7 , while incomplete in itself, may be of help to 
some one else in determining the cause and nature of the 
disease. I am indebted to Dr. I. J. Wolf, of the Kansas City 
Veterinary College, Kansas City, Mo., for valuable assistance in 
the laboratory work. 
ACUTE BOWEL TROUBLE. 
By Dr. Horace Bradley, Windsor, Mo. 
Read before the Missouri Veterinary Medical Association, Oct. 3, 1900. 
The veterinarian’s reputation depends largely upon his suc¬ 
cess in treating what his client terms colic. 
Statistics indicate that about 15 per cent, of horses suffering 
from colic die, and about 40 per cent, of the death rate is from 
this affection. With this knowledge and the fact that a dan¬ 
gerous condition exists, is more apparent to the owners in these 
affections than to others. 
We are not astonished that one who is able to properly diag¬ 
nose and successfully treat these cases receives praise. The term 
colic has been applied to a variety of acute bowel troubles, due to 
widely dissimilar causes, and possessing but one common char¬ 
acter, that of abdominal pain, having its origin in some portion 
of the digestive apparatus. This grouping of several diseases 
under one term has been made necessary because of our inabil¬ 
ity to always differentiate them during life. While each has 
characters and special symptoms in a measure peculiar to itself, 
