FATAL PNEUMOMYCOSIS IN THE HORSE. 
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pulse 50 ; temperature ioo° ; apparently improving, and dis¬ 
continued visits. Dec. 14 called to one which was worse again, 
but owner said the other two were all right. The one he was 
called to had pulse 75, temp. 106°, and colicy pains, and died 
on the 15th. While there the doctor thought it advisable to ex¬ 
amine the others and found the pulse 78 to 8o, and temp. io6 c . 
No. 2 died yesterday, 17th. When I arrived shortly after noon 
yesterday, I found No. 3 in a dying condition, pulse 80 and in¬ 
termittent ; temp. 106.8 0 , lips cracked, breath foetid, and sub- 
maxillary glands enlarged. In each case the limbs were some 
swollen. The rectum forced out, continuous straining, dis¬ 
charging a serous fluid colored with blood ; pain in the bowels. 
We were both satisfied No. 3 would not live but a few hours, so 
we had that one destroyed. * * * In No. 2 on post-mortem the 
larvnx and whole length of the trachea were some discolored , 
remaining organs normal, but a sickening odor came from 
the body. No. 3 showed similar symptoms. Dr. Burns 
had three similar cases, about six miles south of this place, in 
one stable, and all three died after about a week s sickness, pie- 
senting the same symptoms.” 
There were sent in two separate bottles larynx and submax- 
ilary glands, and inferior part of the trachea and bronchi. Also 
a bottle of the drinking water used. The tissues actively con¬ 
gested, especiallv the mucosa and submucosa. As Dr. Moore 
will show, they contained a peculiar microbe of which he main¬ 
tained a succession of cultures. 
Some interesting points may be noted. There is some pre¬ 
sumption that the infection followed the water-shed. The first 
three cases occurred farther south and the flow of the cieeks in 
this district is northward into the lake. For a variable time in 
each case there was little fever, and upon this super\ ened a 
rather extreme hyperthermia, and at the neeiopsy tlieie was no 
old lesion, but merely an extreme congestion of the mucosa. The 
indications were essentially those of bacteridian poisoning 01 of 
ptomaine and toxin poisoning which only appeared at an advanced 
stage, when presumably these poisons had entered the circulation. 
