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profuse nasal discharge, which continued for three weeks, and then 
entirely ceased ; the cough, however, which was present before the 
discharge appeared, continued. 
Mr. Lawson had seen a clearly marked case of pulmonary 
abscess. 
Mr. Morgan was once called in to a horse that for several months 
prior and to within six hours of death was to all appearance 
perfectly healthy; an immense abscess was found in the lungs. 
Mr. Woods had never seen a case of abscess in the lungs, but in 
a well-bred horse placed under his care, successive abscesses conti- 
nued to form all over the body ; he considered the case one of bas- 
tard strangles. The horse was treated with small doses of sulphate 
of copper, and allowance of good food. He ultimately recovered. 
Mr. Greaves said some years ago he was an unbeliever in 
pyaemia, but had seen reason to change his opinion, and now 
believed other abscesses were produced by absorption from pre- 
existing collections of matter. He would relate a case of pulmonary 
disease terminating in abscess and adhesion of the pleura, and 
also one of absorption producing abscess in the lung. 
Case 1 . — A cart horse, five years old, was brought from the 
country into Manchester, examined, and passed sound. In a few 
days he was taken ill, and in about a fortnight died. A post-mortem 
examination being made (by Mr. G.) in conjunction with another 
veterinary surgeon, the existence of abscess in the lungs was revealed, 
as well as serous effusion, and considerable adhesion between the 
lungs and costal pleura. Not the least instructive feature in this 
case (in determining, as it is often necessary to do, whether the 
lesions are the result of previous disease, or the effect only of the 
recent fatal attack) was the unorganised condition of the adventitious 
lymph, showing clearly its recent effusion. 
Case 2. — The subject of the next case was also a five-years-old 
cart-horse, which presented every indication of soundness and good 
health, but which after having worked only half a day came in lame of 
the off hind leg. There was no swelling visible, nor could the precise 
seat of lameness then be determined. In two or three days a swell- 
ing appeared over the tuberosity of the ischium, accompanied with 
considerable constitutional disturbance ; in the course of a fortnight a 
large abscess formed twelve inches lower down than the seat of original 
injury (it was subsequently elicited that a portion of the tuberosity of 
the ischium had been broken off by accident in the horse-box). The 
abscess was freely opened, when it was found that a probe could 
be passed upwards nearly as far as the anus ; a seton was passed 
through the cavity, and the horse got sound. After the lapse of two 
or three months, all at once his appetite failed, “ down went his head, 
and up went his pulse to 70 or 80.” The respiration became increased, 
and breath fetid. Hot fomentations were applied to his thorax, and 
stimulants administered, but death resulted in a few days. A dozen 
