(EDEMA PRECEDED 13 Y STRANGLES. 
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diluted applied to the nose ; the swelling under the abdomen was 
lanced, and an astonishing quantity of clear water escaped from 
the punctures. 
Nov. IsL — The nose hideously and indescribably swollen ; a 
fluid discharge of a yellow colour, mingled with blood, from the 
nostrils ; the extremities less swollen. The nose and lips being 
so terribly swollen as to preclude the possibility of the animal 
eating, gruel was given him to drink ; the nose was lanced and 
the rowel removed. 
2d. — Patient indisputably worse; pulse 80, weak and inter- 
mittent ; she lies down frequently ; refuses all sorts of food ; the 
nose more largely and extensively swollen, the swelling extending 
from the tip of the nose to the eyes; a bloody discharge from 
the nostrils ; she breathes through the aperture in the trachea; 
appears to be in great pain, and we cannot open the mouth to 
give medicines. 
3d. — At three p.m. she died. 
Sectio cadaveris. — The cellular membrane of the nose quite 
black, and surprisingly thickened : the common integuments and 
it had the appearance of one thick membrane ; the subcutaneous 
membrane of the extremities had precisely the same appearance. 
On cutting through the integuments on each side of the chest, 
there was a considerable deposit of lymph, indurated, and mixed 
with black blood. On making a deeper incision through the 
panniculus carnosus a large quantity of lymph was found be- 
tween this muscle and the pectoralis magnus. The substance of 
the lungs was frothy and spongy. The pleura pulmonalis had 
black patches of coagulated blood ; increased vascularity of the 
costal pleura ; lumps of lymph on the diaphragm ; a serous ef- 
fusion in the cavity of the thorax : abdomen healthy. It is 
very remarkable that the swelling extended to one particular part 
of each thigh, about the origin of the extensor and flexor mus- 
cles. A corded and distended vessel was the boundary ; above 
it, the parts were sound and healthy ; they were below black and 
thickened as before described. 
CASE II. 
Feb. 8th, 1835. — I was requested to visit a brown mare, aged, 
one mile from Evesham : she was labouring under the same ma- 
lady as the last, with nearly the same sort of symptoms ; she 
had been sick three days, and worked all the time ; she had just re- 
covered from the strangles. She had been repeatedly bled previous 
to my seeing her, which caused a general lassitude of the sys- 
tem. She died in the night. 
