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REPORTS OF CASES. 
to see what the trouble was he was glad to escape with his life, 
so savagely did the beast attack him. Forcing him out of the 
stall by operating from an adjoining one it was found that the 
animal was frenzied, and he was with difficulty gotten into a 
strong box-stall, where he rolled and exhibited symptoms of 
great uneasiness. Thinking that it might be a form of colic, 
my office was called up with instructions to come at once to a 
case of colic. Upon arrival I found the patient standing with his 
head over the half-door, his body wet with perspiration, muscles 
trembling, jaws champing, and making yawning gasps. The 
attendant showed how it angered the horse to strike at him, 
and he at once made an open-mouth dash at his tormentor. I 
pointed a broom-handle at the horse, which he seized in his 
teeth, thrust out of my hand and broke into many pieces. His 
blanket had fallen from his body and lay upon the stall floor. 
Its presence seemed to greatly irritate him, and he would stamp 
upon it with both front feet, seize it with his teeth and shake it 
in the manner a dog would treat a rat. He would become so in¬ 
furiated that he would throw himself upon the floor and roll 
over, still holding the blanket in his teeth. He would return 
to the blanket every few minutes, and go through the same per¬ 
formance. I had his stall made secure and darkened, with 
instructions that he should be undisturbed beyond administering 
an occasional drink of water in which half-ounce doses of 
bromide of potassium were dissolved. This was accomplished 
by attaching a lead line to the handle of a pail, and lowering it 
into his stall. He drank with avidity, trembling violently 
while doing so. He would rub the side of his nostril against 
the manger or wall until it bled and became very raw. 
I returned at 11.30 and by invitation met there Dr. George 
H. Berns and my assistant, who witnessed similar symptoms 
to those above described. We succeeded in obtaining two snap¬ 
shots at the patient while engaged in furious attacks upon ob¬ 
jects with a small pocket camera. 
The foreman agreed to keep the patient as long as I wished, 
and it was my intention to invite a number of veterinarians of 
the city to see the case ; but in about two hours I was informed 
over the telephone that he was down and unable to rise, becom¬ 
ing very rapidly paralyzed. Not wishing to cause unnecessary 
suffering, I directed that the animal be destroyed by shooting. 
The local office of the A. S. P. C. A. was notified, and an officer 
was at once dispatched, but upon his arrival the patient was dead. 
Post-mortems were not held upon either patient, and the 
