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R. H. HARRISON. 
AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE HOSPITAL 
REPORTS OF CASES. 
By R. H. Harrison, D.Y.S. House Surgeon. 
THE EMIGRATION IN INFLUENZA. 
A large number of cases have been admitted and successfully 
treated in the hospital during the prevailing epizootic; many com¬ 
plications have been noticed, among which have been severe 
epistaxis, continuing for some time after convalescence had taken 
place; purpura hemorrhagica also in a few cases. A passive 
form of laminitis has been observed in several instances, but has 
proved readily amenable to treatment in the shape of cold poult¬ 
icing. Spinal troubles have not been so frequent or severe as 
they were during the last spring and fall. Lung diseases, also, 
have not been as frequent a sequence. Intestinal complications, 
indicated by colicky pains, anorexia and purging, have been 
very common ; the sedematous and rheumatismal forms also have 
been frequent. The form of treatment that has been carried out 
has been stimulation, and, of course, treating special symptoms 
as they presented themselves. A special treatment, which has 
been designated the “ Emigration of Influenza,” has been of 
signal service; this has consisted in altering the hygienic sur¬ 
roundings of the patient as much as possible, removing him from 
the stall where he was to another better lighted and ventilated, or 
placing in a large box when possible, giving especial attention to 
the cleanliness of the stall and bedding, keeping the animal warm 
and comfortable, and not allowing any discharges to accumulate 
on his body, watching his appetite, and taking care that any 
remainder of the food should be immediately removed. Cases 
which have been treated outside, and sent here with the history 
that the animal had a perfect loathing for food of all kinds, and 
on examination presented a high temperature, 105-6-7°, pulse 60 
or more, weak and small, together with great stupor and debility— 
these cases, time and again, when placed in a commodious box 
stall, would at the first meal eat from three to four quarts of oats, 
and the following morning the temperature would be found to be 
