A CONTRIBUTION. 
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1st, at the request of the owner, with my friend Dr. Eddie, I 
made another examination as before. After the animal had been 
exercised a few minutes, and presenting the same symptoms, Dr. 
Eddie concurred with my diagnosis. The next time I saw the 
animal was on the morning of February 4th, at Mr. Geo. White’s 
barn. He had driven the mare and she had fallen, and was 
conveyed to his barn on a sled. He, White, thought she had 
spinal meningitis. The animal was destroyed, and in the pres¬ 
ence uf Dr. Eddie, Dr. Anthony, Mr. Wilbur, Mr. White, and 
several others, the autopsy was made. 
There was no examination made of the head and neck. The 
lungs were normal; the heart somewhat enlarged, weighing nine 
pounds ; the walls of the heart were thin and flabby; there was 
some thickening of the mitral valves ; the viscera of the abdomi¬ 
nal cavity were normal. On dissecting the posterior aorta within 
three inches of the bifurcation of the iliac arteries, I found com¬ 
plete blocking of these arteries, as you will see by examination of 
the specimen which I now present to you. On following the 
course of the external iliac on the off side, I found the clot ex¬ 
tending to the femoral, popliteal and tibial arteries, and how 
much farther I do not know, as the autopsy was made under un¬ 
favorable circumstances. If any of the gentlemen would like to 
see other reports of similar cases, they will find some reported by 
Prof. Liautard in the April number of the American Veterinary 
Review for 1880. 
A CONTRIBUTION 
TO THE HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF 
GLANDERS. 
By J. E. McNicol, D.V.S. 
On Sunday, February 27th, I was called to see a bay gelding, 
12 years old, who had caulked himself five days previously. On 
examination, I observed a peculiar anxious look, with a pulse of 
60 and temperature of 104^ Falir., and some lancinating pains in 
the near hind leg. There was a small slough of the skin on the 
inside of the coronet, and a peculiar discharge on the outside of 
