146 OPERATION OF TRACHEOTOMY IN A STEER. 
gargles, and gave aperient powders; our treatment being 
directed to the digestive organs. A good quantity of gruel, 
&c., was allowed. The mouth soon got well, but the animal 
did not recover his appearance; and on the 27th November 
he was seen to pass a small quantity of urine mingled with 
some blood and pus. This led me to conclude he had 
diseased kidney or kidneys. Within a week he was so low in 
condition and weak, that I advised his*; owner to destroy him. 
This was at once done, and I made an examination by candle- 
light, it was consequently only a rough one ; but I found all 
the organs healthy with the exception of the left kidney. 
This had attached to it a large tumour, which was filled w 7 ith 
hard cheesy matter, and in which was found a quantity of 
small white worms. This case teaches us that the closest 
observer as to the cause of disease will sometimes be perplexed. 
You will have received the kidney and the tumour by this 
time, and w 7 ould greatly oblige me by describing the nature 
of the affection. 
[The morbid specimen did not come to hand so soon as 
was expected, it therefore had undergone so much decompo- 
sition as to prevent us making so careful an examination as 
otherwise would have been done. It appeared to consist of 
an enlarged mesenteric gland, to which was attached a portion 
of intestine, as well as the kidney. No evidence was presented 
of the worms having occupied the interior of the enlarged 
gland, but rather that their habitat had been the intestine. 
The altered state of the gland would seem to indicate that 
its origin was associated with a scrofulous state of the system.] 
OPERATION OF TRACHEOTOMY IN A STEER, 
FOLLOWED BY ACCIDENTAL DEATH. 
By the Same. 
My second case was that of a year-old Sussex steer, 
belonging to the same gentleman. I was called to see it on 
the 6th December, 1856. I found it had great difficulty in 
breathing, arising from the throat and glands being much 
inflamed. I at once opened the trachea, bled him, and ad- 
ministered a dose of opening medicine. Soon after he became 
quite comfortable, from being able to breathe freely; I there- 
fore left him in order to return home for a tracheotomy tube. 
