REPORTS OF CASES. 
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was noticed that he seemed nervous, and upon being brought out 
to be hitched to the delivery wagon was so restless that it re¬ 
quired a man to hold him while the attachments were completed. 
When finally the driver took his seat with lines in hand he ran 
away, falling when intentionally forced against a lamp-post. 
Those who saw him were sure that the animal was irresponsible 
for his actions, as he seemed to be so very nervous and unnatu¬ 
ral in his actions. Reconducted to his stall he became furious, 
and his attendant had to flee for safety. At this point my office 
was called up and my assistant responded. Upon arrival he 
found the patient in an extremely nervous condition, with 
champing of the jaws, salivation, licking his nose and biting at 
his side. Before removing him from the stall his temperature 
was taken, which was 105^° F. His nose was considerably 
swollen and he had rubbed all the skin from it. On attempt¬ 
ing to take his pulse the animal made a vicious lunge at the op¬ 
erator, with mouth wide open, which attack was avoided. There 
were marks upon the nose which looked as though they might 
have been caused by a dog’s teeth, and the horse would every 
little while rub the spot against the wall or manger and lick it 
with his tongue. This he continued to do until it was a mass 
of denuded bleeding flesh. Upon holding the handle of a pitch- 
fork near him he grabbed it with his teeth and held on to it in 
the manner that a dog would, repeating the performance as 
often as it was placed within his vision. His whinny was most 
peculiar, foreign to that of a horse, resembling somewhat the 
diagnostic howl of a rabid dog. The owner not wishing him 
destroyed, he was given a dose of chloral hydrate dissolved in a 
pail of drinking water. The symptoms became rapidly worse, 
and in his fury he tore the boards of the stall partitions and 
manger, kicking, pawing, lunging at objects, until the owner 
had him shot by an officer of the A. S. P. C. A. the evening of 
the day on which the first symptoms were observed. 
Case No. II .—Gray gelding, about ten years old, in good con¬ 
dition, property of the Brooklyn Sanitary Company, used in the 
wagon of one of the inspectors, and stabled at 6th Street near 
Second Ave., a short distance from Case No. I. Had worked 
the day previous satisfactorily, and the first thing noticed of an 
unusual character was on the morning of Oct. 13 at six o’clock, 
when he kicked at a passing horse, an act which he had never 
been known to be guilty of before. On another horse being led 
past his stall he not only kicked but was observed to grasp the 
manger with his teeth. When the stableman entered his stall 
