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CRIMEAN REMINISCENCES. 
and re-insertion, were given, and the animal was ordered 
sloppy bran mashes and gruel, with an occasional handful of 
clover in it. 
No medicine was attempted to be administered, but 
steaming of the nostrils, throat, etc., with hay soaked in hot 
water, and the application of warm fomentations at intervals 
to the tumours, were principally depended upon. 
The body was also warmly clothed, and every attention 
given to the animal’s comfort, by placing it in a warm but 
well-ventilated box. The day following the operation my 
patient was a little better, but its owner had been much 
alarmed by the return of the difficulty of breathing in con- 
sequence of the tube having slipped from its position lead- 
ing to a closure of the opening. By readjusting the tube 
he found that the noise quickly ceased. Some tonic medicine, 
consisting of the Ferri Sulph. mixed as a powder with the 
gruel, was prescribed, and the other treatment continued. 
About the fifth day there was a free discharge of pus from 
the nostrils, and the abscesses on the surface of the body 
were also opened. The breathing was by this time much 
improved, which I ascertained by closing the orifice of the 
tube with my finger. As the tumours in the throat did not 
suppurate externally, I suppose that the purulent secretion 
had escaped chiefly by the pharynx. 
On the eleventh day I removed the tube, and as the re- 
spiration was now carried on easily by the proper passage, I 
discontinued its use entirely, washed the wound, and kept a 
thick pad of wetted tow applied loosely over it ; and for the 
more effectual protection of it against the admission of 
foreign bodies I enveloped the neck in an eight-tailed ban- 
dage. 
A day or two afterwards, as the granulating process seemed 
to be going on a little too rapidly, the wound was touched 
with the nitrate of silver. The healing process was pro- 
ceeding favorably, and the constitution of the animal im- 
proving to my entire satisfaction, when I was necessitated 
to leave the case in the hands of Mr. Fishwick, of Burnley, 
for whom I undertook it, and from whom I have had the 
pleasure of learning that the animal has continued to do 
well, and that she presents no traces of the operation more 
than a slight mark where the opening was made. 
