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very rapid recovery, the indication is perhaps of some value. 
The duration of the disease is variable ; six or seven weeks, or 
even more, may elapse before the affected parts fully recover their 
functions, but the crisis appears to occur about the fourth or fifth 
day after the manifestation of the stiff gait. 
The treatment adopted is simple: fever treated secundem ar- 
tem. Camphor liniment with ammonia and turpentine to the 
loins is beneficial—mustard seemed to cause too much irritation. 
In the case above referred to, which recovered rapidly, the irrita¬ 
tive symptoms were so violent, with rigors and fearful perspiration, 
that being unable to stay with the animal, I injected hypodermic¬ 
ally atropine one grain, and morphia three grains, with exceed¬ 
ingly good results. After the crisis, iodide of potassium alterna¬ 
ted with nux vomica exerts a useful influence in aiding recovery 
of functions in hinder extremities. 
Post mortem .—Opportunities wanting, therefore details mea¬ 
gre. Intense congestion in hind quarters and pelvic organs, with 
inflammation of genital organs; spinal cord probably implicated 
about the lumbo-sacral plexus. Opportunity wanting for careful 
examination. 
These are the chief items that occur to me, but I shall be glad 
to add anything I may have forgotten. 
I. Vaughan. 
VETERINARY MATTERS IN AGRICULTURAL AND DAILY PAPERS. 
Editor American Veterinary Review: 
We read almost every day in some of the agricultural or daily 
papers of veterinarians who have been made investigators of cer¬ 
tain diseases, and particularly when such diseases have assumed 
an enzootic or epizootic form, while it is seldom or never that 
these investigators give the results of their labors where it would 
seem evidently to be due, i.e., in veterinary journals. 
Why this is so, or rather, why it should be so, is a question 
we may well ask. 
Perhaps it will be answered by saying that the diseases which 
they have been called upon to “investigate” prove to be but or- 
