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INFLUENZA, FOLLOWED BY TYPHOID PNEUMONIA, 
LAMIN1TIS, AND DROPSY. 
By Mr. N. J. SrfcEVENS, Hayes. 
Sir, — I BEG to apologize for the liberty of writing to you ; but 
being an olcl subscriber to The VETERINARIAN, and possessing 
your other works, and not seeing a case similar to the following in 
either, I am induced to ask your opinion of it. If you think there 
is any thing interesting for your readers in it, I will send you the 
case in detail. 
Three valuable horses in the same stable were attacked with 
influenza last month. Two of them soon recovered under the 
usual treatment. The other, after two days’ attendance, shewed 
symptoms of pneumonia, for which I treated him. The pulse 
warranting me to abstract blood, I did so, cautiously. Metastasis 
of the disease took place ; it fell in the two fore feet. For this I 
locally treated him. The inflammatory symptoms abated, and a 
tumefaction of all four legs then took place, to that extent that the 
animal was almost immoveable; the sheath, belly, nose, &c. all 
shewing the sequel was anasarca. I inserted a rowel in the chest, 
and blistered as soon as the lungs appeared affected. In twenty- 
four hours the rowel sloughed out, leaving a deep unhealthy ulcer. 
The large tumours all over the body, &c. now began to suppurate, 
although fomentations and cooling anodyne lotions were constantly 
applied. Afterwards, the tumours commenced sloughing off in an 
awful manner, several to the extent of six or eight inches square 
and an inch in depth, attended with an effusion of bloody pus. 
The horse is now covered with large scars, and is nought but a 
wreck of what he formerly was, although nearly convalescent. 
If you will give me your opinion what the nature of the sequel 
of the disease was upon the cover of your Journal, or in any other 
way you think proper, you will much oblige 
Your humble servant. 
Hayes, 11th Feb. 1850. 
*** Our opinion is expressed in the heading we have given to 
the case. We have a similar case under treatment at the present 
time. — Ed. Vet. 
CASE OF RUPTURE OF THE SPLEEN. 
By Rhesus. 
My dear Sir, — As the following case ma}' not be uninteresting 
to the readers of your Periodical, nor, perhaps, more devoid of in- 
struction because described by a non-professional, who has had 
