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ON INFLUENZA. 
merits, no collar could be made by which the shoulders could be 
eased, and there were now four large hideous-looking galls, 
each two inches at least in diameter. 
I determined on using the knife freely, and excising the 
whole. The mare was accordingly thrown ; incisions were passed 
between the sound and the unsound skin, and the latter dissected 
back as far as the semi-cartilaginous substance that formed the 
swelling extended, which was then completely removed from the 
muscles of the shoulder, to which, as well as to the skin, it 
closely adhered. The operation was long and bloody, being re- 
peated on each of the four enlargements, taking care to carry 
the incision some little way above and below into the sound 
skin, in order that the wounds should be as little circular as pos- 
sible. 
A few sutures were made use of, to connect the parts in some 
degree together; but the shoulders presented a very ghastly ap- 
pearance, and the tumours weighed upwards of two pounds. 
The wounds were afterwards occasionally dressed with some 
astringent powder; and in the course of six weeks, or less, a few 
cicatrizing seams could only be perceived to mark the situation 
of this formidable-looking operation ; so rapidly and so effec- 
tually had Nature performed her part in healing up this extensive 
lesion. The value of the mare was increased from 405. to £L7 
in consequence of the operation. 
ON INFLUENZA. 
By Mr. Cheetham. 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Dear Sir, — From the report given in the last Veterinarian 
of the treatment I recommended in Influenza, at the meeting of 
the Veterinary Medical Association on the22d of November, and 
more especially from what it is reported that you stated at the 
next meeting, at which I was not present, I find I must either have 
been misunderstood, or had not described what I recommended 
with that clearness which I ought to have done. You represent 
me, in your speech, as giving “ eight ounces of the spirit of 
nitrous ether, and the same quantity of the carbonate of ammo- 
nia, and six ounces of nitre, and, occasionally, half a gallon of 
porter, in the course of four-and-twenty hours.” This is not the 
