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eyes swelled up. I went in the evening : the swelling of the 
eyes had disappeared, but there were two large bumps on 
the front of the knees, which so pained her that she could not 
be made to move; hind legs also swollen and painful. I 
gave her some fever medicine, and left a dose or two. Next 
day the swelling had subsided a good deal, and in two or 
three days more she was at work. No cough or soreness of 
throat in any of the three ; no alteration in the membranes. 
Two more stood in the same stable, and escaped. One of 
them, a good four-year old cart filly, I had previous to this a 
long touch at. About the close of last year all his horses 
had coughs and colds : this filly horse, worse than the rest, 
was attended by a practitioner in this town. 
January 1 \th ; 1853, they came for me. I found her breathing 
with difficulty, in consequence of some obstruction in the 
throat ; she might be heard roaring out some yards off. I 
looked upon this as a sequela of influenza, inserted a seton 
between the jaws, another large one at the breast, and 
blistered the whole length of the neck, up to the parotids. 
12 lli and 1 Sth . — Somewhat better; some more alterative 
balls were given, and Pot. Iodid. in solution, horned down 
twice a day; the Empl. Iodin. co., c part, sequal. ung. hydrarg. 
fort, applied daily around the throat. On the \4ith I did not 
see her ; breathing more difficult. 
1 5th . — Sent for; much worse. I found my patient in 
danger momentarily of suffocation. The owner had no 
opinion of cutting her throat, not having seen it before, — no 
other chance. I opened the trachea, not without more than 
the usual difficulty, for there was so much action going on in 
the muscles of the neck, to enable the poor animal to draw 
in and expire sufficient air to keep up life, which seemed to 
move the trachea to and fro, together with the thickening 
from the blistering, that to think of carefully taking out a 
portion of two rings was altogether out of the question. I 
cut a piece out and put in the tube, when she was relieved 
like magic. The noise ceased at once, to their astonishment. 
Applied another blister below, continued the ungt. above, 
and gave Tinct. Iodinii bis in die, and gruel, in ter. dos. 
On the 18^ my patient breathed nearly as bad as ever, no 
matter whether the tube was in or out. On seeing this I was 
rather dumb-founded, and confoundedly puzzled. I passed 
my finger in and felt a roundish lump of something on the 
upper side of the trachea, which seemed attached externally 
by a very narrow neck, and that neck I was afraid of parting 
asunder in trying to work the other out ; luckily I had my 
case with forceps : finger and forceps together. At last got 
