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CRIMEAN REMINISCENCES. 
By Thomas Paton, M.E.V.C., Military Train. 
GENERAL EMPHYSEMA FROM A FRACTURE OF THE 
RIBS BY A 'PORTION OF A SHELL. 
Among the most remarkable cases which came under my 
notice after the explosion in the right siege-train was that of 
a French horse belonging to the “Equipages militaires ” which, 
while running away from the scene of the catastrophe, was 
struck on the near side by a portion of a shell which caused 
a compound fracture of three of the ribs and an extensive 
laceration of the common integuments. This accident was 
quickly followed by a protrusion of the lung and general em- 
physema, which extended itself throughout the cellular tissue 
of the entire body, giving to the animal so remarkable an 
appearance that, in the distance, I imagined it to be the 
remains of a dead camel inflated by the gases of decom- 
position. 
I am not aware that any veterinary writers have treated of 
emphysema, and this struck me as a case of some interest. 
The phenomena which precede death will, of course, be the 
same as in the human subject, namely, rupture of the pleurae 
costales et pulmonales, and the process of respiration in- 
flating the cellular tissue by a sort of pumping action, thus 
leading to ultimate asphyxia from compression of the lungs 
themselves. 
As the horse w r as a cf stray animal ” of course he did not 
come under treatment, and, even if he had, it would probably 
have proved a fatal case. 
glanders in a camel. 
It is an almost generally received opinion that the order 
<c ruminantia ” is altogether exempt from glanders, and 
which, from this circumstance and the great susceptibility 
of this species to it, is, in fact, styled an equine disease. 
An opportunity which I had, in common with a profes- 
sional friend, of making a post-mortem examination of a 
camel, which we came across in one of our rides, proved to 
us the capability of this dreadful scourge extending itself 
even to those animals which we had been accustomed up to 
that period to consider as secured from it by some peculiar 
and unexplained influence. 
