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will, to a certain extent, expend its force in a manner peculiar 

 to itself; and all our efforts, for a time, at least, to arrest it 

 will only prolong the sufferings of the patient. The proper 

 thing to do is to encourage suppuration from the surface of the 

 inflamed membrane, by means of poultices and fomentations 

 to the neck, by steaming the head, by attention to the wants 

 and the comforts of the patient, and by the administration of 

 one or more of the remedies named above ; but if the free 

 discharge of purulent matter fails to afford relief, then is the 

 time, in the generality of cases, to apply a blister to the region 

 of the disease. I have known a blister, when thus applied, to 

 produce in a few hours a marked relief to the patient, and also 

 to lessen the discharge from the nostrils more than one-half.* 



Teacheotomt. — Tracheotomy is an operation which, in 

 Laryngitis, should be more frequently performed than it usually 

 is. I believe if it were so, that many valuable animals would 

 be preserved from Koaring. AVhen the disease is violent, as 

 will be evinced by the sufibcative character of the cough, and 

 the snoring noise which attends the breathing, the operation 

 should be performed forthwith. 



Diet. — The diet of the patient ought to consist of Bran, 

 Sago and Milk, Milk and Bread ; the drink of Acidulated 

 Water, or Barley Water, or Milk and Water. If the animal 



* Blisters are applied to the neck in these cases, evidently for the purpose of 

 arresting the disease, i.e. to check it from going to the suppurative stage ; hut 

 this a blister seldom etfccts. It is very rare to see a genuiue case of Laryngitis 

 but what docs advance to the suppurative stage ; so that, to apply a blister to check 

 suppuration, is inflicting useless torture upon the patient. If applied, however, 

 when suppuration is fully established, a blister then acts by drawing the blood, 

 as it were, from the structures inflamed to those affected by the mitant, and so 

 relieves the congested ooudition of the former. 



