4 TWO CASES OF MALIGNANT SORE THROAT. 
3d. — Can eat much better. 
5th. — As bad as ever. Cannot swallow ; and all that she 
masticates, on attempting to swallow, is coughed back 
again through the mouth and nostrils. Is very thirsty, and 
w ould, if she could, swallow, — indeed, soon empty a bucket ; 
but all returns through her nostrils. The breath is now 
very offensive, and much matter comes down her nostrils. 
Give three calomel pow 7 ders in the course of the day. 
7th. — About the same. Wants to eat, but cannot swallow. 
Ordered good oatmeal gruel clysters (4) to be given every two 
or three hours, as she is sinking fast. 
9th. Blisters have risen w r ell ; but she is no better. Coughs 
with difficulty. Discharge from nostrils is great and very 
offensive, — smells as bad indeed as if it came from diseased 
bones. We now commenced giving brandy and tonics, every 
four hours, in a little gruel, w 7 hich with great difficulty she 
can swallow in small quantities. Sent this day six powders, 
each containing Pulv. Cinchon., 5 ss i Lyttae, gr. iv; Pip. 
Jam., 5ij. 
13th. — About the same, — certainly no w 7 orse. There is no 
swelling, except from the blister, about the throat externally. 
Rowel discharges sanious matter. 
l6th. — Still the same. Can swallow a little. Sent a mass 
containing 5SS doses of Hyd. Chlor. c. Opio, to be given every 
four hours in gruel, and also some Ung. Hyd. fort., to be 
rubbed into the throat and about the ears. 
19th. — Is better. I found her out grazing; but there is 
evidently some palsy of the muscles concerned in deglutition 
and mastication, as she has a difficulty to swallow the grass 
w r hen masticated, and the lower lip is pendulous, and shakes 
about w hen she chew 7 s. She can bite the grass off fast enough, 
and even chew it, but when it gets between the grinders 
and buccinator muscles, she seems to have a difficulty in 
removing it. Her breath is but little offensive now 7 . The 
row el has been taken out for a day or two, and the parts look 
healthy, the wound being nearly filled up. I believe she has 
been rolling in the fields several times ; she trotted off from 
me, although she is miserably poor and hollow 7 . Ordered to 
be well supported w 7 ith any sort of food she w ill eat or drink, 
and to continue the ointment to the throat. 
2 1st. — This morning she w 7 as thought to be going on very 
w 7 ell and the owner believed that she w 7 ould get well ; when, 
on going to see her again in the course of the morning, he 
found her issuing blood very badly from the nostrils, there 
being in the pit and ground a quantity of blood found. She 
was brought up into the stable, where she died, immediately ; 
