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showing in the least externally. Symptoms, pulse 60, not 
very regular, very little fever, nose dry, all four legs stiff and 
sore upon moving them quickly. 
As there had been hard rains for a few days I thought she 
might have taken cold and that it might be rheumatism ; so 
advised giving her salicylate of sodium and borate of sodium 
three times a day, and anything that she would eat. On the 
18th called again and he wished me to come and see the bitch, 
as she was no better and would not eat. I went at once and 
found her stiffer than ever, temperature 102. 3-5 0 , pulse 80, 
very irregular. Diarrhoea, with expulsion of masses of mucus, 
which was occasionally tinged with blood, and I made the re¬ 
mark that I thought we had missed it in not giving the worm 
medicine which we had talked of previously, and advised giv¬ 
ing at once. 
Upon giving a capsule she immediately threw it up, and I 
told him to wait a couple of hours and try again. 
On the 19th I called again and found her much the same as 
before, not eating at all, but drinking water some. She was 
very stiff yet, would move only as she was forced. Temperature 
103°, pulse 80, very irregular, movement of bowels same. 
On the 21st called and found dog dead. Was told that the 
right front leg had swollen up, broke and run considerable mat¬ 
ter. It looked very much like blood poisoning. I held a post¬ 
mortem, as I wished to see the condition of the viscera, etc. I 
found the bowels much inflamed, some black spots, and was in 
that condition throughout their whole length ; liver enlarged, 
kidneys badly inflamed, spleen somewhat enlarged. Upon open¬ 
ing the thoracic cavity I noticed the spotted condition of the 
right lung. On severing the pulmonary artery and bronchial 
tubes of the posterior lobe of the right lung, I was somewhat 
surprised to find a mass of white worms reaching from the heart 
down into the pulmonary arteries of the right lung, some twenty 
in number, I should say, about the size of a knitting needle and 
ten inches long, of an ivory white color. On dissecting the 
heart I found in the left auricle and ventricle a mass or ball of 
the same worms as large as a goose egg, completely filling the 
cavity. The photograph shows them in the heart just as I 
found them, about forty in number. 
What are they ? Where did they come from ? and what are 
they doing there ? What are we to do in such a case ? 
This same bitch had a litter of pups some three months 
ago; they all died, suffering from a diarrhoea with expulsion 
