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animal made violent expulsive efforts, and passed by the anus a ball of 

 worsted. By the evening it was bright, and ate some of its ordinar}' 

 food. 



During the following days improvement increased, the animal 

 became brighter, and appetite returned. 



On the loth the swelling about the neck had disappeared, and only 

 a narrow fistula remained, discharging a trifling amount of serous pus. 



The wound had closed on the 15th, when the animal left hospital. 



FCETID PURULENT ABSCESS IX THE NECK OF A CAT CAUSED 



BY A NEEDLE. 



52. Subject. — A five-year-old male tabby cat. 



History. — Had suffered from catarrhal fever in April, 1892. For a 

 fortnight before examination had appeared restless and in pain, 

 appetite was capricious, and at times there was slight vomiting ; 

 the right side of the neck from the jaw to the shoulder became 

 swollen. 



State on Examination (on September 3rd, 1892). — The swelling in 

 neck was painful and fluctuating, and had commenced to point. 



Treatment. — The abscess was opened an inch below seat of pointing 

 to afford freer drainage ; about six ounces of foetid pus escaped. The 

 cavity was irrigated with weak creolin solution, and the parts covered 

 with a sublimate cotton-wool dressing. 



Until September 6th appetite and general condition impro\ed, the 

 abscess cavity diminished, and health}- granulations formed. 



On September 7th the animal appeared worse, and on the 8th was 

 again brought for inspection. A piece of grey worsted three inches in 

 length was removed from the cavity, and on search a needle was dis- 

 covered to the right of the splenius muscle ; its e3^e was uppermost, 

 level with the superior border of the muscle, and about two inches 

 distant from the head : the needle was inclined obliquel}- from above 

 downwards and forwards towards the pharynx ; it was two inches in 

 length, and black in colour. Evidently it had penetrated from the 

 mouth. 



The patient died on the loth September. 



Autopsy. — The pleural cavities contained eight ounces of oftensi\'e 

 hsemorrhagic purulent exudate, in which floated a few flakes of 

 lymph ; this exudate formed a jelly after a few minutes. The pleura 

 pulmonalis showed a few flakes of slightly adherent lymph ; the 

 mediastinal pleura was inflamed, thickened, and friable. The centre of 

 the right lung was consolidated. Petechia; were visible on the epi- 

 cardium. With the exception of a cheesy gland near the inferior 

 ligament of the liver the abdominal viscera were healthy. No tubercle 

 bacilli were found on microscopical examination. 



Mr. H. Gra_v's case, Joiirn. Coiiip. Path, and Therap., 1S92, p. 381. 



SURGICAL TREATMENT OF CHRONIC ROARING-- 

 HEMIPLEGIA LARYNGIS. 



53. A seven-3ear-old Norman mare belonging to M. M — , 232, 

 Faubourg St. Honore. Paris, affected with intense chronic roaring. 



