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my presence. Accordingly I rode to the stable. For my safety 
and convenience the horse was led into the office. His first 
appearance did not indicate great sickness, pulse 42, respiration 16, 
temperature of extremities about natural, color of membranes also; 
no evidence of pain. By auscultation I could not detect any 
unnatural sound in the chest. I ordered the horse led to my 
infirmary, half a mile off, so that 1 could watch him closely. 
After receiving treatment there he lay down, and remained quite 
comfortable for several hours. This was on Tuesday. Very little 
medicine was given him; simply had good nursing, and until the 
Friday night following appeared slowly improving, his appetite 
middling. On visiting him in his box stall, before I retired for 
the night, I found him eating his bedding (clean straw), and saw 
nothing to prevent his recovery. On the following morning found 
him dead, having apparently died without a struggle. An autopsy 
revealed tuberculosis of both liver and spleen, the liver weighing 
thirty-three pounds, and the spleen twenty-eight pounds. ISTo evi¬ 
dence of disease in any other part of the organism. This horse 
was used in a livery stable for a year previous, and was always 
in good flesh, and considered able to work hard until about a week 
previous to death. 
Case 2.—A large gray horse, belonging to a manufacturing 
company, owned by them for several years, and kept for driving 
and use in a cart about the yard. My attention was called to him 
on Monday; found what is commonly called a case of “ staggers.’* 
On making inquiry I learned the horse was taken ill on the Sat¬ 
urday previous, that he had been bled and pliysiced by a man 
who had been many years in the army in Canada, but who was at 
this time an employee on this corporation, and said he had had 
experience among the army horses. The horse, while we were 
looking at him, had a severe paroxysm of the disease, and used 
great force to make his way through a bale of wool, which had 
been placed in front of him to prevent him injuring his head, and 
while doing so voided his urine, in quantity about half a pint, 
which stood upon the floor nearly half an inch thick, resembling 
glue in color and consistency, and containing a large proportion 
of albumen. Grave a laxative ball and two drachms of extract of 
