TWO CASES OF ABSCESS IN THE THROAT. 45 
The case continued this way for about three weeks; we 
could not get at the abscess externally, and the animal would 
eat but little, so the owner had him destroyed. 
Post-mortem. — We found the swelling to be an abscess; it 
was ripe, and pointing in an anterior direction, situated on 
superior part of larynx ; it weighed four pounds seven ounces. 
The weight must have been nearly sufficient to collapse the 
larynx. 
Case 2. — The subject of this was a milch cow, and belong- 
ing also to Mr. C. Barnard. She had been out at grass. 
The cowman had noticed her making a roaring noise for 
some weeks before Mr. Harris was requested to attend 
her. 
Diagnosis. — Found the throat enlarged above the larynx, 
and it felt like a chronic thickening; she made a roaring 
noise, but her breathing was not much interfered with at 
the commencement of our attendance, but became more so 
towards the end of it. She fed tolerably and ruminated. 
Treatment. — Applied the Ung. Hyd. Biniod., which relieved 
her to some extent, but the owner decided to have her 
killed. 
Post-mortem. — The enlargement proved to be an abscess, 
but not so ripe as the bulks was. It weighed two pounds 
six ounces, and was situated above the larynx. 
Remarks. — In the course of the intensely hot summer of 
1868 we had a number of similar cases to those already de- 
scribed. Surely the heat must have had something to do 
with this form of disease, either directly or indirectly ; the 
latter seems the most probable, for the grass was dried up 
to such an extent that it neither possessed the nutritious 
qualities of grass or hay ; however, things were turned out as 
usual ; so long as the owners felt comfortable, they, in many 
instances, seemed to think little about the quantity or 
quality of the food their stock had to eat, so long as they 
existed (I am not now alluding to these two cases, but to 
others which came under my observation) . 
As poverty of the blood is conducive to the formation of 
abscesses, it would seem highly probable that the heat had 
indirectly to do with the number of cases we had. 
My principal reason for recording these cases is, because 
I have not seen any of the same description mentioned in the 
Veterinarian , as arising from the same cause, viz. the hot 
summer of 1868. 
