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place into the cellular tissue of the entire head. I freely 
scarified the parts, and ordered hot fomentations to be con- 
tinually employed, but all was of no avail, as at the end of 
three days tetanus set in, and she died. 
Case 2. — An aged cart-horse received a slight wound on 
the superior maxillary bone, around which there was a little 
swelling. Thinking not much of it, I w 7 as content to order 
fomentations to be applied, and to leave a mild digestive com- 
pound with which to dress the wound. On my next visit, 
I found the head enormously swollen, and the wound 
devoid of pus. The pulse was very languid, and the animal 
almost incapable of gathering his food, although he appeared 
very anxious for it. By the third day the swelling of the 
head was so great that the horse could scarcely hold it from 
the ground. I deemed this but another hopeless case, and 
on the next day I arrived only just soon enough to see him 
die in a state of coma. 
Case 3. — This was one of a brown cart-horse, which had 
had a slight enlargement of the submaxillary gland for 
about two or three weeks prior to my attendance. I gave 
the horse an aperient, and followed it up by some diuretic 
medicine. After he had been under treatment a week, the 
head suddenly began to swell. The lips were so enormously 
engorged as to present a frightful appearance ; the 
tongue also hung from the mouth. On puncturing the lips, 
&c., straw-coloured serum flowed freely from the incisions. 
He shortly died. 
Besides the ordinary appearances, the sinuses of the head 
and areolar tissue presented a jelly-like condition from the 
amount of the effusion which had taken place. 
Case 4 was one of the same disease, as a sequel to 
strangles. 
Result. — Death. 
Case 5. — A similar one, from a kick on the inferior maxillary 
bone. 
Result . — Death. 
Case 6. — Also a fatal one. The dropsy followed as a 
sequela of bronchitis. 
