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would knuckle over in this limb occasionally in walking. This quarter 
had been least affected with suppuration. The muscles are now devel¬ 
oping with exercise and good food, and she is able to trot off quite well. 
A slight discharge still continues from the two openings referred 
to. I have injected these every second day, with a solution of chloride 
of zinc (five grains to the ounce,) for a while. Within the last week 
have twice injected comp. tine, iodine. 
The question that presents itself to my mind in this case is whether 
this was, in reality the specific disease called strangles (pyogenic fever,) 
and if so, then I think that the abrasion on the tail caused by the crup¬ 
per must be regarded as the “vis froute" that determined pyogenic 
action of the specific disease to the tail and adjacent parts, the same as 
the setoned capped hock drew pyogenic action to the limb of the second 
subject referred to in this paper. 
I wish to add a few lines, in concluding, in regard to milk as an 
article of diet in low forms of disease, and when solid food is refused. 
In my experience I Jrave found that horses will drink it voluntarily when 
they will reject oatmeal gruel, and I think it preferable to any liquid 
food that can be given, as it supplies all the ele?nents of nutrition which 
can scarcely be said of any other single article of diet. I think that 
with good, pure air, milk and whisky, nearly all cases of typhoid influ¬ 
enza can be successfully treated, or, at least, as many cases can be 
treated as successfully with these agents as with any other system of 
treatment usually adopted. 
Rochester, May 1, 1877. 
CEREBRO SPINAL MENINGITIS. 
By Theo. S. Very, V. S. 
I have read with a great degree of interest, Prof. Large’s account 
of the recent outbreak of cerebro spinal meningitis in the Brooklyn car 
stables, and am convinced that many of the conclusions drawn by him 
in relation to the pathology and treatment of the malady are strikingly 
correct. It may appear that nothing which I might write will add to 
the knowledge to be gleaned from what he has already given to the pro¬ 
fession concerning it; but as our methods of thought differ widely, and 
we sometimes take opposite channels for the transmission of the same 
ideas, I trust not to be considered tedious or intrusive if I make a few 
