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CASES OF IRREGULAR STRANGLES. 
tensely irritating and suffocating character; the mare became 
almost unable to drink : the pulse was exceedingly weak, 
and more irregular than ever. When the farrier occasion- 
ally gave gruel by the mouth, dangerous paroxysms of 
dyspnoea, followed by coughing, were induced. 
Having to leave town for three days, I commissioned some 
of the students attending my summer class to watch the 
case, and directed the throat and breast to be continually 
fomented with very hot water. I confess, too, that sundry 
directions were given regarding a careful record of post- 
mortem appearances, for the chance of recovery seemed 
almost hopeless. 
On my return, however, I heard that, on the 12th July, 
and, according to the farrier’s hyperbolical account, she had 
“vomited a half pailful of matter.” On the 13th, I certainly 
found matter actually and copiously running from both 
nostrils. Since that time, she gradually improved in appear- 
ance, as she became able to eat. Her appetite is now (Aug. 
8th) unreasonably great. She lies down, has no cough, and, 
with one exception, seems well. This exception is the pulse; 
it is still irregular and intermittent, but nothing to compare 
with what it has been. I incline to think, that this abscess 
existed in the superior thoracic mediastinum, but will not 
pretend to explain or even conjecture, how its contents 
gained the oesophagus, and why the matter came upwards. 
Case 2. — A chestnut mare, 15 hands 2 inches high, strongly 
made in proportion, and not showing much breeding, was 
purchased at Rutherden fair, on the 6th May last, by Lieut.- 
Col. Teesdale, for the Royal Artillery Service. She was 
examined by me, considered “sound,” and delivered at Leith 
Fort the following day. Nothing unusual was remarked 
concerning her for ten days afterwards, except that she did 
not eat the bran, upon which young horses are usually fed, 
for some days after being purchased. 
May 20th. — For a few' days past, she has had the prevail- 
ing catarrhal epizootic, but has wasted in condition far more 
than other horses affected by the same disease ; feeds 
sparingly, and is now showing premonitory symptoms of 
“ Strangles .” 
By the 27th, the sublingual lymphatic glands had sup- 
purated very sparingly, but the swelling w as greatly sub- 
sided, and except for growing thinner every day, she seemed 
to be getting well rid of the disease. The appetite was not 
w orse than in many horses at apparently the same stage of 
recovery. 
June 1st. — Renewed swelling has been noticed for two 
