170 CASE OF LARYNGITIS, FOLLOWED BY NEPHRITIS. 
varieties and complications would only have confused the subject 
here, and will be more properly considered in a separate paper. 
I have also, and for the same reason, been silent respecting its 
passing into some other complaint, which it not unfrequently does. 
I have seen some few cases of this ; but they always appeared to 
me to be rather a complication with, than an alteration into, another 
disease. 
Magazine fur die Gesammte Thierheilkunde , 1844, p. 88. 
A CASE OF LARYNGITIS, FOLLOWED BY NEPHRITIS. 
By Mr. R. W. WALLIS, Dunmow, Essex. 
My dear Sir, — I f a brief outline of this case is considered worthy 
a nook in your valuable Journal, it is at your service. 
On the 4th of January ult., I was requested to attend upon an 
aged pony, the property of a clergyman in this neighbourhood. 
On my arrival I found, by the symptoms evinced, that laryngitis 
had set in. The respiration and pulse were accelerated — the ap- 
petite fastidious — difficulty of deglutition, with painful cough. 
My treatment consisted in bleeding, laxative and fever medi- 
cine, with the employment of counter- irritation to the throat, and 
attention to the diet of the animal, & c., which, in the course of ten 
days, set all tolerably right again, not, however, without my pa- 
tient having sustained considerable loss of condition. 
At the interval of little more than a week, I was again sum- 
moned to attend upon this pony, which was said to be in the last 
stage of disease. My old patient presented a sorry appearance — 
his countenance was extremely anxious — he was restless, making 
frequent efforts to pass his urine, which was scanty, and of the 
colour of porter — occasionally lying down, and, when made to 
walk, his gait being straddling and awkward. 
These symptoms, together with others, forewarning me of dis- 
ordered kidneys, my attention was directed to a considerable 
swelling on either side of the spine, extending from the hip to the 
withers, which I found to be of an oedeinatous character and pain- 
ful. On pressure being applied over the region of the kidneys, it 
was sufficiently evident, that either there was a species of remote 
metastasis of the laryngeal inflammation, or, as 1 was disposed 
to think, a kind of settling of the febrile state of the system had 
fallen upon the urinary secretory apparatus, there being an in- 
flammatory diathesis already existing in these organs. 
