550 ON TIIE ENLARGEMENT OF THE NECK IN LAMBS. 
ous stimulating embrocations, poultices, and all other remedies I 
thought likely to disperse the tumour, but without the slightest 
success. 
On the 22d, I was requested to ride over in haste, the owner 
being afraid that she was dying ; and I believe that, had I arrived 
an hour later, she would have perished from suffocation. Her 
breathing was accelerated and laborious, and might be heard at 
a considerable distance. The head was protruded, and the nos- 
trils distended — the eyes were fixed, and the limbs set wide apart, 
which, with an occassional reel, caused the spectators to expect 
that she would immediately drop and die. I, at once, had re- 
course to tracheotomy, which gave her instant relief, and in the 
course of three or four hours her breathing became quite tranquil. 
The canula remained in the wound for a fortnight, except that 
it was daily taken out and cleaned. During this time the iodine 
ointment was well rubbed on the glands twice a-day, and twelve 
grains of the metal given internally night and morning. 
The medicine and ointment were continued to the 30th of Sep- 
tember, at which period the wound in the neck had healed, the 
glands were of their natural size, and the mare quite capable of 
her usual work. She has remained sound to the present time. 
ON THE ENLARGEMENT OF THE NECK IN LAMBS. 
By Veterinarius. 
Not having seen any remarks in The Veterinarian for 
September relative to the “ enlargement of the neck in lambs, ” 
which appeared in the August number, I am induced to consider 
it a disease (if it may be so called) of rare occurrence ; but as 
your journal is free for opinions as well as cases, I beg to transmit 
you mine. 
As the South Downs are a breed of sheep which prevail on 
the dry chalky downs in Sussex, as well as the hills of Surrey 
and Kent, I should impute this defect to the influence of the 
water in any new locality, and its probably possessing some saline 
or mineral properties, which did not exist on their native hills. 
As regards the flocks of the other breeds, those ewes which did 
not produce lambs with this defect had probably become habitu- 
ated to the properties of the water in their new residence. The 
fact of the tutor’s lambs coming all perfect, I should attribute to 
the snow-water which was given in the early period of gestation, 
as certain experiments have proved that the water of dissolved 
snow is the purest that can be procured. 
