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intendence of a practitioner on the spot. The horse having from 
time to time become worse, he was placed under my hands. 
At the time of his admission, the respiration was difficult and 
painful in the extreme, the nostrils expanded, the pulse 50, great 
soreness of the throat, difficulty in swallowing and the head project- 
ing forwards, with rigidity of the muscles of the neck. He was bled 
somewhat copiously, had the throat and trachea blistered, a rowel 
inserted in the chest, and laxative medicine, together with occa- 
sional fomentation to the throat, with but little abatement of the 
symptoms. 
On the afternoon of the 3d of November the disease assumed a 
most formidable and alarming character, threatening the poor ani- 
mal with suffocation, who was down and unable to rise, sweating 
profusely, pulse 90, accompanied with a sonorous noise in breath- 
ing distinctly audible the length of the infirmary square, a dis- 
tance of between seventy and eighty yards, and, to all appearance, 
in the last agonies of death. At this time I fortunately reached 
home, when my assistant immediately came to make me acquainted 
with the poor animal’s sufferings, adding, he was all but dead from 
suffocation. 1 lost no time in visiting my patient, and on making 
an opening into the trachea, the relief was instantly apparent. The 
sonorous breathing subsided, shortly after which the animal was 
upon his legs again. 
Towards the evening there was a discharge of frothy mucus 
mixed with blood from both nostrils, the respiration comparatively 
free and easy, and the roaring noise not audible at half the dis- 
tance ; but great soreness of the throat, and incapability of swal- 
lowing even a little water. The blister was repeated to the throat. 
Nov. 4th . — Pulse 50. Breathes with more freedom, and in every 
respect better. 
5th . — Pulse 40. The noise in breathing has quite subsided ; 
feeds well, and drinks with perfect freedom ; free from pain, and 
doing well. 
6th . — Pulse 40. Respiration somewhat more difficult, accom- 
panied with a wheezing noise and evidently not so well again. 
Repeat the bleeding, and blister to the throat. 
1th . — Pulse the same. Respiration more difficult; discharge of 
mucus from both nostrils; soreness of throat, and difficulty in 
swallowing. The tube was removed from the trachea, cleaned, and 
re-inserted. Towards the evening the breathing became more 
tranquil, and he, to all appearance, was much better again. 
8 th . — Pulse 45. Breathes with more freedom. In attempting 
to drink there was great difficulty in swallowing. Portions of 
masticated food dropped from the near nostril into the pail, and part 
of the water returned by the same passage. There was a discharge 
