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their oats; others, without any swelling or other abnormal symp¬ 
toms, merely rejected their oats since two or three days. The 
tumefactions proved to be warm, painful to the touch, and upon 
pressure imprints were more or less visible. In a few of them 
the thermometer indicated 100° to 102°. Recommended hypo- 
sulphate of soda mixed with mash or drink-water, to be given to 
each of those showing any signs of indisposition. 
The next day (June 8th) two of these patients required par¬ 
ticular attention. A roan horse, very fat (as they all were), 
refused all kind of nourishment. Respiration 16, pulse 60, tem¬ 
perature 104°; a trifle tympanitic; inclined to lie down ; swelling 
of limbs, extending somewhat above the hock and knee-joints; 
peristaltic tardy, intestinal evacuation less, tough and in small 
balls. The administration of an aperient changed his condition 
for the better in 24 hours. 
The other, a black horse, was so stiff that he had to be forced 
to move. The swellings on the hind extremities reached nearly 
to the femoro tibial articulation. Respiration 24, pulse 76, tem¬ 
perature 106°; no appetite. He received a dose of an antipyretic 
mixture, and a rectal injection of cold water, every three hours. 
In the evening I found him slightly improved. He took some 
bran mash, and appeared more cheerful than in the morning, but 
the superintendent informed me that in the afternoon he was in 
great distress, indicated by lying down, sweating profusely, moan¬ 
ing, breathing rapidly, for two hours, followed by several copious 
soft stools, whereupon relief ensued. Closer examination showed 
that the temperature fell two degrees, circulation but little altered, 
and lespiration 30; stiffness diminished ; tumefaction unchanged. 
On June 9th both these horses gave evidence of improvement; 
the black made a speedier recovery than the roan. Rut the super¬ 
intendent on this morning counted twenty more which were more 
or less afflicted with tender swollen legs. Two had ophthalmia 
of the original type of influenza of 1881. Hone of these, how¬ 
ever, showed sufficient morbid symptoms as to demand therapeu¬ 
tical interference—at least all were able to perform more or less 
work. 
In a livery aud boarding stable another lot of horses (ten out 
