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neck are held up, but he struggles to rise rather more than 
any other case 1 have seen ; so much so, as to oblige me to 
put the hobbles on him. The involuntary discharge of 
urine is puzzling. There is also an apparent convexity of the 
spine existing, and which the doctor says the horse had not 
before, which is equally difficult to satisfactorily account for. 
The horse was twice bled yesterday, and I therefore did 
nothing more than apply an active counter-irritant to the 
spine. Precautions were also taken to protect the horse’s 
knee and fetlock joints from being damaged by the floor of 
the stable. A few days sufficed to end his sufferings. 
Post-mortem examination, tw T elve hours after death. — Tho- 
racic viscera . — Lungs healthy; heart healthy. The left ven- 
tricle contained about four ounces of solid matter, whitish in 
colour, and having a far more adipose-like appearance, than 
clotted fibrine usually has when deprived of its colouring 
matter. Abdominal viscera . — Stomach and bowels free from 
disease. In the left kidney a cyst w r as met with wffiich con- 
tained about three ounces of purulent matter. The bladder 
w r as filled with urine, and its mucous coat was red from 
inflammation. 
Nervous system . — Brain healthy; but the spinal canal in 
the portion corresponding to the lumbar and sacral vertebrae, 
was filled with a chocolate-coloured fluid of about the con- 
sistence of simple syrup. 
It is somewdiat singular that the bladder should be found 
full, as during the animal’s illness the urine never ceased to 
trickle from him. 
Newry; Aug. 6, 1857. 
CASE OF STRANGLES APPARENTLY DEPEND- 
ING ON CHOKING. 
By W. G. Reeve, M.R.C.Y.S., London. 
On the evening of the 30th April last, I w r as hastily sert 
for to see a roan horse, aged 6 years, which had been some 
few days out of health, during which time he had been 
under the treatment of the farrier of the firm to which he 
belonged. 
The symptoms w’ere characterised by an excessively loud 
and distressing kind of roaring; the horse appeared to be 
partially suffocated ; saliva was running from the mouth, and 
the respiration w^as quite painful to witness. 
