CASES OF TENOTOMY, TRACHEOTOMY, &C. 23 
Hotel, in this town. He had been fired on both fore legs ; notwith- 
standing that, however, he became so much worse, and knuckled 
over on the near fore fetlock to that degree, that I advised a divi- 
sion of the tendon, to which Mr. L. assented, the horse being all 
but useless to him. On the 2d of August, 1842, I operated. 
After returning the leg into its proper position, I brought the 
divided edges of the integument together by two sutures, bandaged 
the leg from the pastern to above the knee, and applied a shoe 
projecting about three inches behind the heels. The bandage was 
kept constantly wet with cold water, and not removed for ten days. 
The healing process went on favourably until the cure was com- 
pleted. He is now in the possession of Mr. Wm. Lee, farmer, 
residing a few miles from this town, to whom Mr. Lilburn sold 
him. Mr. Lee works him on his farm, and occasionally in his 
jaunting-car. He has remained firm and straight upon his legs, 
although it is now upwards of seven years since he was operated 
on. 
CASE II . — May 19 th, 1843. — I was this morning called in haste 
to a bay mare, the property of John Falls, Esq., of the distillery in 
this town ; and, from what I was told by the groom as to the state 
the mare was in, I took with me my case of scalpels and my tra- 
cheotomy tube. When I got to the stable, I found the mare in 
great distress from extensive tumefaction of the parotid and sub- 
maxillary glands. Her nostrils were dilated to the fullest — the 
breathing was so loud and sonorous, that it was audible at some 
distance before reaching the stable — the countenance denoted ex- 
treme anxiety, shewing evidently that, if the animal were not 
speedily relieved, she must suffocate. I learnt that she had been 
under the care of the groom, who had blistered her two or three 
times. I lost no time in making an opening into the trachea and 
removing a portion of two of the rings, and inserting my tube. The 
relief, as is usual in such cases, was instantaneous. 
20 th . — Applied a blister to the swollen glands, and, at the ex- 
piration of twenty-four hours, a poultice. 
22 d . — Repeated the blister and poultice as before. 
24^4. — Suppuration perceptible at the angle of the left jaw. 
Lanced the part, which gave exit to a great quantity of pus. 
Continue poultice. Her principal support consisted of gruel and lin- 
seed infusions, in w. ich she now took, twice a-day, a powder com- 
posed of nit. potassse, tart. ant. and hyd. chlor. Suffice it to say, 
she rapidly recovered, the swollen glands becoming speedily re- 
duced through the application of the ung. biniod. hyd. She has 
since brought up two foals, and has obtained the first premium as 
a brood mare at the annual show of the Dungannon Agricultural 
Society. 
