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GLANDULAR ABSCESSES. 
NUMEROUS ABSCESSES OF THE GLANDS AT THE ENTRANCE OF 
THE CHEST, OCCASIONED BY THE INSERTION OF A SETON IN 
THE BREAST, CONSECUTIVE ON ACUTE PLEUR1TIS — DEATH 
OF THE ANIMAL. 
[Case minuted in the Clinique of the School at Alfort.] 
Reported by M. DUQUESNE, Pupil . 
VARIOUS accidents are liable to supervene upon the application 
of setons to different parts of the body of most of our domesticated 
animals; some so serious in their nature as to produce death. 
These latter are, however, now too well known for it to be neces- 
sary for us to revert specially to them, or present them afresh to 
the notice of practitioners. In fact, what can we say respecting 
those hemorrhages which are denominated passive , of those gan- 
grenous swellings, which, under some circumstances, are seen 
accompanying and following the application of a seton, after the 
observations that have already been made on these subjects in the 
monthly journals, as well as in some of our veterinary works. But 
besides these consecutive accidents there are others, usually of a 
trifling nature, and on that account hitherto but little studied, 
which may, when occurring in certain parts of the body, induce the 
most serious and fatal consequences, as the following case will 
prove. A Hungarian horse, of a good constitution, adapted for 
draught, roan coloured, and five years old, belonging to M. Malice, 
of St. Maur les Fosses, was, on the 1st of last April, brought to 
the veterinary school at Alfort for advice, and left at the infir- 
mary of that institution to be treated for acute pneumonia, dis- 
tinctly characterised as situated in the inferior half of the left lobe 
of the lungs. 
The usual course of treatment proper under such circumstances 
was immediately had recourse to, viz. external revulsives : two 
setons were inserted under the breast, and two more upon the left 
side of the chest. The treatment employed produced a rapid im- 
provement in the state of the patient, so much so, that on the 15th 
instant he was returned to his owner in a fair way towards perfect 
convalescence. 
Before he was discharged the four setons were successively 
withdrawn, since the whole of that portion of the lungs which had 
ceased to respire had again become permeable to air. The owner 
had also been advised to have the canals of the two setons in the 
