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J. C. MEYER, SR. 
As a rule the animal is dejected, appetite diminished or 
entirely 'wanting, pulse numbers from 70 to 80 beats, seldom 
more. If the disorder be purely functional the pulse is harder 
than normal ; if, however, it be the result of organic derangement, 
the pulse will be intermittent and irregular. The heart-beat is 
throbbing, isochronic, often transmitting the shock to the whole 
body; the palpitation is sometimes heard at some distance. The 
heart-beat is often leaping, rebounding, generally like the stroke 
of a hammer within the thorax. The breathing is occasionally, 
though seldom, normal, and may accelerate even the dyspnoea. 
As a rule, the respiration rises to 30 per minute. Percussion is 
not to be depended ; upon upon auscultation bellows murmurs are 
heard. In continued affection dullness and tympanitic sound with 
bellows murmurs in the lungs sometimes appears. If the disease 
lasts longer, the animal becomes weak, languid and unsteady. 
This condition can be confined to three or four hours, but it may 
continue the same number of days. 
In purely functional effects the prognosis is favorable; if 
organic changes be the cause of the disorder, the prognosis de¬ 
pends upon the nature of the change. 
{To be continued .) 
INFLUENZA IN A NEW ATTIRE, 
Paper read before the Ohio State Veterinary Medical Association, 
by Dr. J. C. Meter, Sr., V.S. 
The various phenomena in which influenza manifests itself 
from time to time, and the question whether such a disorder as 
“epizootic cellulitis” really exists, induce me to give an account 
of an enzootic pathological process which resembles this com¬ 
plaint. 
On June 7th, 1885, I was called to see a bay mare suffering 
with cramp of the diaphragm. The superintendent of the stock 
(about 40 in number) drew my attention at the same time to 
several horses which had slightly swollen feet, and refused to eat 
