53*2 DISEASE CONCURRENT WITH THE PRESENT YEAR. 
productions we employ ? — were asked to explain the physiology 
of the various structures in ruminants, and the nature and proper 
mode of treating the diseases to which they are liable 1 If he 
does, let him come before that tribunal to which he has appealed, 
and substantiate his remarks. Let him bring his witnesses before 
the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons : there 
will we meet him ; there will we give evidence to prove that we 
have stated the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. 
We are, Sir, your obedient servants, 
Edmund N. Gabriel. 
T. Walton Mayer. 
Charles Spooner. 
ON DISEASE CONCURRENT WITH THE PRESENT 
YEAR. 
By R. Read, V.S., Crediton. 
The pages of The Veterinarian would be rendered still more 
valuable if record was made in it, through the medium of the 
profession, of the “ reigning or existing” disease in the different 
localities in which practitioners reside. From the commencement 
of the present year 1845 to the beginning of June, laryngitis and 
pharyngitis have been rife in my neighbourhood ; they have made no 
distinction as to age. Rearing colts at grass, and the stabled animal, 
have alike shared in the disorder ; the starved and the well-fed 
one have been equally susceptible to the impression of the attack. 
In some the disorder has been simple, and confined only to the 
larynx or pharynx; in others it has been compound, affecting 
both. It is familiarly known by the name of quinsy among 
farmers. The symptoms have of late been described by Mr. Per- 
civall in The Veterinarian, and to enumerate them again would 
be a waste of the pages of the journal. It has been favourable in 
my district : out of hundreds of cases, not one has fallen a victim to 
the malady. Under my own immediate care, one case of death only 
l have witnessed, and that resulted from empirical treatment, the 
consequence of giving a large dose of aloes while under the dis- 
order. Some of the cases of laryngitis were acute, and the roar in 
breathing could be heard at a very considerable distance ; and, in 
one case of pharyngitis, after the primary symptoms were subdued, 
the animal, on every attempt to swallow, returned the food through 
the nose. The appetite was strong, mastication was performed 
with avidity, but the attempt at deglutition returned the food 
through the nasal opening: this state continued for a week, and, the 
