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had to be removed and cleansed several times during the day and 

 night. Four days after the operation, the tube accidentally slipped 

 out of the trachea, and on my arrival in the morning I found that air 

 from the lungs had inflated the whole cellular tissue of the neck, from 

 head to breast, so that about these parts he appeared like a juvenile 

 elephant. 



I reinserted the tube, and rubbed the neck with the liniment al- 

 ready in use, and gave a dose of ammonia in water, wuth some fluid 

 extract of prickly ash bark. 



On the fifth day after the operation, I removed the tracheotomy 

 tube and dispensed with it, leaving the animal to breathe through 

 the orifice, he still being unable to breathe through the nostrils. 



During this day and the sixth, a very copious discharge from the 

 nostrils, as well as the tracheal artificial orifice, occurred, much of 

 the same resembling that attending diptheria. The animal now be- 

 gan to show symptoms of dropsy, in the region of the breast, belly, 

 sheath and legs, for which I prescribed sweet spirits of nitre, com- 

 bined with my favorite tonic (golden seal.) The dropsical SAvelling 

 at the point of the sternum being vei'y large, I there introduced a 

 seton smeared with olive oil and spirits of hartshorn, which finally 

 had a very good effect ; and in the course of a few days, by means 

 of this and slight scarifications, the swelling had entirely subsided, 

 together with the other droi)sical symptoms. 



From day to day the patient gradually improved. I sutured the 

 wound made in opening the trachea, on the tenth day after the oper- 

 ation, and now, at the time of writing this article, (fifteen days from 

 *>he time of my first visit) there is a slight discharge from the nos- 

 trils, also from between the stitches taken to close the wound in the 

 oeck, neither of which am I in a hurry to arrest, as I consider them 

 *'avorable symptoms. 



The horse has now a good appetite, is in fine spirits, lays down at 

 night, and is out of all danger; and what is most remarkable, does 

 not appear to have lost much flesh. This is probably owing to the 

 fact, that the horse had a fine vital temperament, which sustained 

 him through the trial of his malady, and during the same he got no 

 medicine of a prostrating character, my aim being to keep the horse 

 alive while the disease run its course. 



Kemakks on the Case. — I hope the reader will not infer that 

 every case of diptheria requires the above treatment ; this, like every 

 other disease, must be treated according to its indications, and it is 

 very rare that the disease assumes the complex form which charac- 

 terized this unusual affection. 



VETERINARY SCIENCE — HOW TO INAUGURATE IT 

 IN THE U. S. ARMY. 



The necesssity which now exists for the services of veterinary 

 surgeons in the U. S. army, needs no argument on the part of the 

 author of this work. Every man possessing the least particle of 

 humanity for that much-abused class of animals known as " army 



