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certain extent, expend its force in a manner peculiar to itself; 

 and all our efforts, for a time at least, to arrest it -wi]!. only 

 prolong the sufferings of the patient. The proper thing to do 

 is to encourage suppuration from the surface of the ioflamed 

 membrane, by means of poultices and fomentations to the neck, 

 by steaming the head, by attention to the wants and the com- 

 forts 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.* 



Xraoheotomy. — 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 Eoariag. "When the disease is violent, as 

 will be evinced by the suffocative 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 MUk, Milk and Bread; the drink of Acidulated 

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

 should become much debilitated. Port Wine or Aromatic Am- 



* 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 ; but 

 this a blister seldom eflfects. It is very rare to see a genuine case of Laiyn- 

 gitis but what does advance to the suppurative stage ; so that, to apply a 

 blister to check suppuration, is inflicting useless torture upon the patient. If 

 applied, hovever, 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 irritant, and so relieves the congested condition of the former. 



