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found extensively diseased with pneumonia, in a state of red hepa¬ 
tization. At some points the lungs seem to be of a livid color, 
and nearly passing into suppuration. The pleura was much 
thickened, principally the diaphragmatic portions. The heart 
was empty. The other organs were healthy. The stomach, how¬ 
ever, was entirely empty, with the exception of about three ounces 
of a dark fluid, containing also a large number of strongyli, 
some of which had gathered or were collected into a large 
pouch, imbedded between the muscular and the mucous coat. 
The uterus presented on the left horn a tumor about the size of a 
large apple, somewhat oval, soft to the feeling, which on exami¬ 
nation seemed to be of a fibro-myoma. The bladder was empty 
and retracted into the pelvic cavity. 
CONTAGIOUS OPHTHALMIA IN CATTLE, 
By A. A. Holcombe. D.V.S. 
My first opportunity to see this disease was in the latter part 
of the summer of 1881, when an outbreak occurred among the 
thoroughbred and grade shorthorns belonging to Messrs. Wilson 
Smith, of Leavenworth, Kans. Whether it originated on the 
farm, or by contagion, I could not determine. No attention was 
paid to the outbreak until the second case made its appearance, 
when I was called to give treatment. The two affected animals 
were immediately isolated from the rest of the herd, placed in a 
dark stable, and a solution of sulphate of atropia prescribed. 
Whenever the first symptoms of the disease made their appear¬ 
ance in any of the other cattle, they, also, were at once isolated, 
so that in a short time the outbreak was suppressed. 
No other cases came to my attention until this summer, when 
an outbreak took place on the farm of Lucien Scott, Leavenworth, 
Kans. The first case was in a Hereford calf, brought from 
Beecher, Ill. The disease began about June 20th, and rapidly 
spread among the calves, until fifty out of sixty were affected. 
Soon after the disease appeared among the calves, the cows be¬ 
came affected, and eighty out of one hundred became victims. 
Five of the calves and ten of the cows had both eyes affected. 
The disease either exhausted itself with the warm weather, or was 
cut short by the first appearance of cool weather and rain. 
