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throat that is one of the most marked symptoms, in the majority 
of cases, in the horse. No petechia or spots were discovered on 
the animals, hut they are frequently absent from cases in the 
human subject. Other points of similarity are the short career 
and fatal character, and being epidemic, or endemic; also, although, 
we do have some few cases in cities, usually of the sporadic form, 
it is generally in the rural districts where this disease appears. 
There is a disease in India known as “ kumree ” that was very 
fatal to horses some years ago, the pathology of which was stated 
to be hemorrhage in the cord or between its membranes, causing 
paralysis by pressure, and terminating fatally. We mention this 
thst the two diseases may not be confounded. 
The diagnosis of cerebro-spinal meningitis is not very difficult 
if the animal is prostrated, the symptoms being well marked. But 
it is in L the early stage when the throat is first affected that we 
must make the diagnosis if the animal is to have a chance of re¬ 
covery. For this purpose, we make it a rule to have'all the ap¬ 
parently unaffected animals frequently tested with a bucket of 
water to see if they can drink. If the amount of water is much 
diminished in the pail by swallowing , not spilled over , well and 
good. It is necessary for the test that they drink out of a bucket? 
or small vessel of some kind, where the amount taken can be 
noted, else a person may be deceived; for an affected animal will 
persevere in the effort for minutes, and to an ordinary observer 
seem to drink well, but no water passes down the sesopliagus. As 
soon as an animal seems to be affected it must be placed under 
treatment immediately, and if it is in the country and likely to be 
epidemic (and it will soon prove itself), the effort to prevent others 
from being attacked had better be made, for an “ ounce of pre¬ 
vention is worth a pound of cure.” But in cities it will occasion¬ 
ally be found that out of a stable full of horses a sporadic case 
will occur, with no tendency to attack the others; it may be that 
the animal has been to an affected district, and brought the seeds 
of the disease away with it; but this is merely a matter of suppo¬ 
sition, as we have no data to guide us. 
