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supplied by the same nerves, or those adjoining the pharynx, 

 have been recognized in different cases. 



Treatment. This must depend on the obvious cause of the 

 affection. If due to an infectious disease the first attention must 

 be given to that. If due to tumors or abscesses pressing on the 

 nerves they may be removed. If there is bulbar hyperaemia 

 or effusion attention must be devoted to derivation and other 

 means of combating that. Cephalic congestion and heat may be 

 met by cold applications. Derivation toward the bowels may be 

 secured by eserine, pilocarpin or physostigmine administered sub- 

 cutem. Reabsorption of exudate may be sought by pilocarpin, 

 or diuretics — the latter administered by the rectum. Electricity 

 in weak current may be tried when the acute febrile symptoms 

 have moderated, accompanied by hypodermic injection of strych- 

 nia (2 grs.). Frictions around the throat with essential oils or 

 even a cantharides blister may be used to advantage. Antiseptic 

 washes may be injected into the mouth, — vinegar, boric acid, 

 borax, sulphite of soda. Finally the animal must be nourished 

 by rich gruels and soups given by the rectum, or in the smaller 

 animals by the stomach tube. 



TUMORS OF THE PHARYNX. 



Varieties of neoplasms. Malignant, invade adjacent and distant parts. 

 Symptoms : sore throat ; stertor ; dyspnoea : dysphagia. In cattle, lymph- 

 adenoma, tubercle, actinomycosis. Cause cough, ptyalism, discharge, 

 foetor, dysphagia. Dogs and pigs vomit. Treatment : medical ; surgical. 



Tumors of the pharynx are not common in the horse yet they 

 occasionally appear as either primary or secondary neoplasms. 

 They are of various kinds, as epithelioma (L,abat, Mathis), car- 

 cinoma (Casper, Dupuy, Mathis), sarcoma (Siedamgrotzky, 

 Johne), lipoma (Fricker), cystoma (Degive) and melicerous 

 (Ivesbre). The malignant forms tend to invade the surrounding 

 tissues and spread widely into the nose, palate, tongue, pharyn- 

 geal glands, and, secondarily, 4nto the small intestines. The 

 simple tumors like the lipomata and fibromata tend to detach 



