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the anjmal standing and large quantities of saliva coming from the 
month, of a greenish color ; he would endeavor to drink, but could 
not swallow; pulse intermitting ; there was evidently some de¬ 
rangement of the heart’s action; this animal died during that 
night. I did not see him after death, but was told there was a 
great quantity of water collected in the pericardial sack. This 
gentleman had two more horses taken in the same manner, but 
they were saved; we went to the farm where the pond is situated 
and found three of his horses sick, showing the same symptoms 
as his neighbors’, one of which died, the other got better. The 
disease did not make its appearance until after a heavy rain had 
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riled the water. There is no doubt that drinking this water was 
the cause of this outbreak, because their stock were the only ones 
affected and the only ones that had access to this pond. 
I will mention another instance where I believe ill drainage 
and impure air was the cause: Sometime during the winter of 
1876-’77 there was considerable excitement in and around Belle¬ 
ville caused by a report that several valuable horses had died in 
the township of Huntingdon from some new or mysterious dis¬ 
ease. A quack was employed to attend those cases; after losing 
four very line animals, he threw up the sponge, saying he did 
not know what the disease was. I was then consulted and re¬ 
quested to send some medicine for a colt that was sick, but I de¬ 
clined, saying I could not treat so dangerous a disease as what I 
suspected without seeing my patient; he concluded not to have 
me go out because it would cost so much. He went home, found 
the colt dead and four others sick ; he came back post-haste for 
me; I went out, got there about three o’clock in the morning, 
found quite an army of men and boys awaiting my arrival ; I was 
hurried into the stable and found the air almost suffocating ; I 
ordered the sick animals to be covered warm and the doors and 
windows thrown open; I then proceeded to examine my patients, 
two of which had partially lost the power of deglutition, breath¬ 
ing short; mucous membranes of a purplish hue ; pulse about 70°, 
and weak; the muscles of the body relaxed ; legs cold. I gave 
each one a good stimulant combined with 3 i pot. nitras, bandaged 
the legs, stimulated the throat with ammoniacal liniment; in 
