DISEASES UF RESPIRATORY PASSAGES AND ORGANS. 9 
of breathing was performed through the tube. I then applied a 
counter-jrritant to the throat, composed of cod-liver oil and spirits 
of camphar, equal parts; ordcred a warm bran mash, into which 
was sprinkled one ounce of powdered chlorate of potass. 
For several days a very copious discharge from both nostrils 
occurred ; also from the orifice made in the windpipe; so that the 
tracheotomy tube had to be removed and cleansed several times, 
both during the day and night. Four days after the operation, 
at aight, the tube accidentally slipped out of the windpipe, and 
the mishap was not discovered until morning, when I found that 
air from the lungs had escaped into the cellular tissue, and in- 
flated it so that the soft parts in the region of the neck and head 
appeared much swollen. I gave the patient, twice daily, one 
ounce of hyposulphite of soda, and had the swollen parts well - 
rubbed with liniment. On the fifth day I removed the tube from 
the windpipe, and allowed the animal to breathe through the arti- 
ficial opening, he stil] being unable to respire through the nostrils. 
At the expiration of fifteen days from the commencement of the 
animal’s sickness, the wound in the windpipe was closed, natural 
respiration having been restored. During the treatment of the 
patient, he was allowed, occasionally, flaxseed tea, with about one 
ounce of chlorate of potass per day. He had good attention, or, 
rather, good nursing, and finally was again restored to usefuluess. 
In the early stage of laryngitis, or, rather, the inflammatory 
stage, cold water bandages should be applied to the throat, and 
a few doses of fluid extract of gelseminum, at the rate of one 
fluid drachm per dose. 
Croup (CyNANCHE TRACHEALIS). 
Croup (cynanche trachealis), or, as it is sometimes termed, 
tracheitis, manifests itself in the form of a violent and sudder 
disease affecting the mucous membrane of that portion of the 
air-passages which lies between the laryngeal cartilages and the 
primar; passages of the trachea, or windpipe. Conpr& contends 
that, in the majority of cases, the inflammation in croup com- 
raences in the mucous membrane of the larynx, and from thence 
extends into the trachea. The disease is, therefore, strictly speak- 
ing, a izryngeo-tracheitis. In many instances, however, we have 
reason ‘. beliave that the inflammation commences in the brenebi, 
