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driving for a quarter of an hour. It was bled (7 lbs.), and an antiphlo¬ 
gistic treatment adopted. Palsy of the hind limbs ensued, and great 
straining from bladder and rectum. The animal died in thirteen hours. 
The organs, with specimens of urine and blood were sent to the author 
for examination. Nothing definite could be stated as to the condition 
of the kidneys, which were swollen, blood-stained, and beginning to 
decompose. The spinal cord was of good consistence; the urine had 
the color of dirty Bordeaux wine, and contained numerous molecules of 
albumen, with fungi, but no casts or blood corpuscles. Analyzed by 
Professor Voit, in the Physiological Institute, it yielded 1.18 per cent, 
of hcemoglobin. Nothing abnormal noticed in the blood itself. 
Observation II. A horse, in good condition, was kept in the stable 
for a few days, being fed on beets, clover, potatoes and oats. Shortly 
after being taken out, and while in motion, he began to sweat and 
showed signs of weakness in the hind legs, so that he was with difficulty 
got home. In the stall the paralysis became more marked, and the ani¬ 
mal could not stand up ; there was copious sweating, greatly increased 
respiration, with attacks of dyspnoea, occasional straining from the blad¬ 
der, and great hardness of the lumbar and shoulder muscles. A vene¬ 
section to 5-6 litres was employed, during which the animal stood up, 
became quiet, and the condition so much improved, that after four hours 
convalescence was established. The blood showed nothing abnormal; 
the urine was as in the preceding case. 
Observation III. A heavy draught horse, 6 years old, which was 
attacked with well marked symptoms of the disease, at 8.30 a. m., after 
having been uneasy for some time previous, and died in an hour. At 
the autopsy, 6 hours p. m., the lungs and heart were found healthy; the 
liver enlarged, tissue coarse, clay colored, and very anaemic ; spleen of 
moderate size, and contained one hemorrhagic spot and a few infarc¬ 
tions. The kidneys were enlarged, the tissue very flabby and soft, re¬ 
sembling spleen-pulp in consistence. The surfaces were mottled and 
covered with small hemorrhages. Nothing abnormal in the stomach or 
intestines. The bladder contained about a litre of coffee-brown urine ; 
the surrounding parts of both kidneys, particularly beneath the lumbar 
muscles, were very oedematous. The inner and outer lumbar muscles, 
especially the former, strongly oedematous, and extraordinarily brittle ; 
the connective tissue sheath and the trunk of the nervus ischiadicus 
also oedematous. In the spinal cavity, the sub-arachnoideal fluid was 
increased ; membranes healthy; cord of good consistence. On micros¬ 
copical examination nothing remarkable was found in the blood. The 
