640 ELECTRICITY IN PUERPERAL PEYER. 
large branch of the common carotid, from which there was 
considerable hemorrhage, and not being able to get at it to 
take it up, it set at defiance all other means of arresting the 
escape of blood for a long time, when the mare became very 
weak. This was very much against me, for I found after- 
wards that the acid entered the system much more than 
it had done before ; I therefore did not apply any more of 
it, but attended to the system, by giving two or three 
doses of linseed oil, and the usual antidotes to the poison ; 
and now she is looking well, and the wound has nearly healed. 
I might be permitted to state, that the trachea had been bared 
by the operation more than half way round, and to the extent 
of a foot in length ; and several of its rings in the front having 
sloughed away, the tube has consequently been open more 
than a month, but it is now nearly closed. The portions I 
send you for examination are parts of the whole that have 
been taken off ; the softest portion coming directly from the 
front of the trachea, and near to the chest. 
I am, sirs, 
Yours respectfully. 
[A microscopical examination of the portions of the tumour 
sent showed it to be of a cancerous nature. The cells making 
up the great bulk differed in no important particular from 
those of similar morbid growths.] 
ELECTRICITY SUCCESSFULLY RESORTED TO IN 
A CASE OF PUERPERAL FEVER. 
By J. Holden, Burley. 
Gentlemen, — Should you consider the following cursory 
remarks suitable to the pages of your interesting and instruc- 
tive Journal, I shall feel pleased by their insertion, as illustrative 
of the old motto “ nil desperandumP 
Some time ago I was consulted in a case of puerperal fever. 
The patient was a young beast of great value, and high pedi- 
gree, and in first-rate condition. From the first impression 
made upon my mind, the case presented unfavorable omens. 
I was alarmed by the rapid progress of the disease, and the 
many unfavorable symptoms that hourly presented them- 
selves. The bowels were incorrigibly torpid, the breathing 
laborious, the extremities cold, the head protruding, the 
