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CRIMEAN REMINISCENCES. 
previously suffused the head and sponged out the mouth and 
nostrils with cold water. After employing plenty of friction 
to the body and extremities I had the animal well clothed and 
gave him the remainder of the grog, and in about two hours 
afterwards he got on his feet and continued standing till 
supper time, when I allowed him a light repast. On the fol- 
lowing day he seemed to be going on very satisfactorily, and 
was enabled to return to light duty on the third day from 
the time of the accident. 
SINGULAR ACCIDENT TO THE TONGUE. 
My attention was called to a mule, by one of the drivers, 
who said “ that it had got its tongue into the bit and could not 
get it out,” and that he first noticed it at Kadakoi, on his 
way from Balaclava to our camp near Karain, a distance of 
about three miles, which he had travelled at a walking pace. 
On examination, I found that the animal had thrust its 
tongue through one of the rings of the bit, by which the 
vessels had become strangulated, leading to so much swelling 
of the organ as to render its withdrawal altogether impos- 
sible. I first tried to contract the tongue by the production 
of a low degree of cold, enveloping it in snow, which I kept 
in a melting condition, by pouring water upon it. This 
plan would most likely have ultimately succeeded, but the 
process was a very tedious one, and as the patient was 
much exhausted, I determined to scarify the tongue freely, 
and to squeeze out the blood, by which means I was soon 
enabled to liberate the “ forward member.” We had no means 
at hand of cutting the ring, although that course suggested 
itself to us. 
TRACHEOTOMY. 
Previous to my departure for the Crimea, in 1855, I had 
under treatment a yearling filly, which was the subject of a 
rather singular form of strangles, and which many country 
practitioners can remember as being very prevalent in the 
summer and autumn of that year among very young animals, 
during the continuance of the easterly winds. The affec- 
tion seemed to select any part but that which we usually 
consider the right one as the seat of the abscess, namely, 
the sub-maxillary space. 
These abscesses appeared to have a decided partiality in 
most cases to form in the parotideal and laryngeal regions, 
and in very many instances they caused so much impedi- 
ment to respiration by their mechanical pressure, as to 
