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regurgitation. I placed him upon tonic, alterative and anodyne 
treatment. I was, however, unable to arrest the now—to my 
mind—thoroughly established disease of the heart. A few days 
since the horse died, and upon post-mortem examination I found 
the heart enlarged to at least twice—or nearly twice—its normal 
size. 
I hope the foregoing may be of interest to your numerous 
readers, taking, first, the conditions, viz., the colicky symptoms; 
2d, the valvular regurgitation; 3d, the intermittent pulse; 4th, 
the cartilaginous texture, of which I omitted to speak in the 
proper place, and, 5th, the gritty or rough feeling of the divided 
organs. 
C. H. Gollatz, Y.S. 
INFLAMMATORY RHEUMATISM. 
Editor American Veterinary Review : 
On the 4th day of April I received a dispatch from Mr. Van 
Benthem, of Osage County, Kansas, requesting me to see a herd 
of thorough-bred young bulls, coming two years old. I complied 
on the 5tli. Two were permanently down; when raised could not 
stand; had them sent over to the barn and slung; they belong to 
a herd of sixty-four head, all bulls, and extremely fat; have been 
full fed from their infancy. During last winter and up to this 
time they have been fed on corn, ground cob and all; of this they 
had all they could be induced to eat, with access to ripe millet, not 
threshed, with plenty of water from a stream running through 
a lot in which they were kept. 
After caring for the sick, was requested to inspect the balance 
of the herd; found four that walked in a peculiarly lame, stiff, 
and wabbling gait. After a little exercise, walked natural, fed 
and drank. 
April 10th, again visited the herd; two of the four ailing 
ones at my previous visit were down. 
The statement of Mr. Yan Benthem was to the effect that two 
days previous, in turning a short angle, on a smooth dry place in 
the lot, the red bull broke down, and on the evening of the 9th, 
the spotted bull was also down, by the side of the stream. They 
