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for let it be remembered that the animal may suddenly expire 

 . from suffocation, in his efforts to breathe. In cases of an alarm- 

 ing character, such, for example, as when the mucous membranes 

 are infiltrated, or tumefied, or the laryngeal cavity occupied by 

 morbid secretion, recourse must be had to bronchotomy, or trache- 

 otomy, either of which terms serves to designate the nature of the 

 operation. It consists in making an opening into the windpipe, 

 and introducing through it a tube, so that the lungs are inflated, 

 without the air having to pass through the laryngeal channel. 

 The operation is both safe and practicable, for it is seldom, if 

 ever, attended with bad results. 



This operation, however, should only be resorted to when the 

 danger of suffocation is imminent ; and then the breathing tube 

 ought to be removed, the wound closed, and the integuments 

 brought together by stitches, just so soon as the horse shows signs 

 that the danger is past. 



We have found water, cold or warm, as the season permitted, 

 very good for relieving acute laryngitis, applied by means of 

 sponges to the throat. 



In chronic cases, when the glandular organs around the throat 

 are swollen, a stimulating liniment will be indicated, which should 

 be rubbed in night and morning, the animal to have a nutritious 

 diet, and to be drenched as follows : — 



Balsam of fir, 1 ounce, 



Sweet spirits of nitre, ... 2 ounces. 

 Sirup of garlic, 4 ounces. 



Mix. Dose. — One sixth part to be given every night in a pint 

 of thin gruel. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS. 



PNEUMONIA. 



Mr. Percivall uses the word "pneumony," instead of pneu- 

 monia, "to express either a state of congestion or of inflammation 

 in the lungs." The disease may be in the congestive or inflam- 

 matory stages, simple or complicated, involving the bronchia, or 

 pleural membranes, either the one or the other ; acute and s*l>- 



