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week, and his appearance when first seen by me was as follows ; Pulse 
65, eyes bright but conjunctiva very red, mouth hot and red but moist 
nostrils very red with bright red crusts adhering to the septum, in 
some respects resembling the ulceration in glanders only that its color 
was different, and the sores apparently not so deep; the intermaxillary 
glands were also tumified somewhat as in glanders and quiet firmly set 
ill the bone. The skin was covered with- a pustular eruption discreet 
everywhere excepting between the thighs and below the knees and 
hocks where they were confluent, the limbs being stiff, painful and 
considerably swollen. The pustules were very numerous on the lips 
and nose, where there was no hair, and also on the sheath, the tops of 
many had fallen off leaving a bright red umbilicated projection, others 
contained bloody pus, they varied in size, the average being as Iar«e as 
peas-the lower part of the limbs looked very bad, in addition to" the 
swelling, lymph had exuded and glued the hair together givino- the 
appearance of grease. His bowels were constipated and he inoved 
with difficulty, but his appetite remained very good, this was by far 
the worst case. In about a dozen others all the above symptoms were 
present except the eruption on the skin, on three others a few pustules 
veie tound. In two, strangle abscesses formed in the intermaxillary 
space. Professor McEachran of the Montreal Veterinary College had 
a short time personally written to me that variola equina prevailed 
among the horses there; I immediately became convinced that this was 
the same disease. 
In answer to a telegram, I again visited them on the 21st, and 
found several new cases, but all were doing well with the exception of 
the first, large abscesses had formed on or just above the fetlocks of all 
of his legs, and also on his sheath from which much creamy pus was 
discharged leaving sores as large as the palm of a man’s hand; the 
limbs were much disfigured, and he will probably carry the scars 
through life, the pox marks were gradually assuming a greyish appear¬ 
ance and drying up, so that but little trace of them will be left except¬ 
ing on the bps and sheath. Mr. Fleming in his manual of Veterinary 
Science and Police, remarks the similarity of some of the symptoms to 
t lose of glanders and farcy which renders mistakes in diagnosis liable 
to occur, this was precisely my experience in examining the first and 
worst case. I rather hesitated before pronouncing it horse pox, feel¬ 
ing that it might possibly turn out a bad case of glanders and farcy, 
le stock having been so generally exposed I did not separate them, 
