42 AFFECTION OF THE (ESOPHAGUS AND JUGULAR. 
time by the Catholic priests, in the woods belonging to the dif- 
ferent monasteries ; but, on their dissolution, they became, like 
their protectors, dispersed, and, with only a few exceptions, 
where they happened to find protection in some noblemen’s forests 
or parks, are nearly extinct. 
A SINGULAR AFFECTION OF THE (ESOPHAGUS 
AND JUGULAR IN A MARE, AND ALSO A CASE 
OF TUMOUR ON THE MEDULLA OBLONGiVTA 
OF A HORSE. 
By Mr . Francis King, Jun ., V.S, f Stanmore, 
A case or two of rather mysterious character having just 
terminated, I am induced to sketch you a history thereof, inas- 
much as they tend to shew in what a field of conjecture a poor 
veterinarian occasionally finds himself. 
Case I. — Nov. 24th. A young and fine mare, belonging to a 
gentleman at Hendon, came in, with the statement that she was 
seized, after eating some carrot-tops, with violent coughing, and 
that it was expected she would have been choked — that the dis- 
tress and agony were so great, that she threw herself violently 
about, and pawed with force enough to pull off one of her fore 
shoes. When brought in she was tolerably calm, but, though 
willing to eat and drink, she could not swallow anything, it being 
returned through the nostrils, accompanied by some blood, 
which, however, soon ceased. It was said that the bleeding at 
first was considerable. The off side of the face and lips, including 
the ear, were paralysed, and an enlargement extending from below 
the throat up to the ear on that side presented itself. 
An examination by the hand so far as it was possible afforded 
no satisfactory information. Trusting to what a little time might 
disclose, the glands of the throat and jaws on both sides were 
actively blistered, and that action kept up. 
This state of things went on for two or three days, when, still 
finding that the animal could not swallow any thing, we attempted 
to pass the stomach tube (in the hope of getting some nourish- 
ment into her in that way) ; but we could not. 
On the 29th, the swelling under the parotid was evidently di- 
minished, and, by almost unceasing efforts to swallow (for the 
