CASK OF STRICTURE OF THE RECTUM. 
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but has eaten four carrots and a handful of split beans. R Spt. nit. 
seth. §jss, liq. amm. acet. sulph. quinin. 3ij, best port wine, Ibj. 
23 d. — Pulse 57, and stronger; respiration natural; dung thin, 
but does not smell so offensively; the urine in great quantity, but 
of a light colour ; the breath not so fetid. Discharges a consider- 
able quantity of mucus from the nose, also coughs up a great 
quantity of mucus ; swelling quite gone from the nose ; still swelled 
under the chest and the inside of legs ; ears and legs warm ; the 
scarlet appearance not so great as yesterday ; the amendment is 
very evident. Eats any thing that is given to him, but will not 
drink gruel. He had half-a-pint of port wine this morning at six 
o’clock. I also gave him two drachms each of pulv. gentian, and 
pulv. zingiber, in some gruel. 
24 th — Treatment the same. 
2 5th . — Pulse 48 ; respiration natural ; ears and legs warm ; 
breath not so fetid. The scarlet appearance less towards the alse 
of the nostrils, but higher up it is still very deep ; the throat not 
so sore ; he coughs up a considerable quantity of mucus ; the dis- 
charge from the nose not so great, still a little swelling under the 
chest ; the faeces about the consistence of cow dung ; feeds well. 
Treatment: carb. amm. Jss, turpentine 5ss, every other day. 
29 th . — Pulse 38; the scarlet appearance quite gone; breath 
natural; throat better, & c. He is very thin, but is recovering 
fast. 
[The above appears to me to be a decided case of scarlatina ma- 
ligna. There are one or two papers in The Veterinarian on 
simple scarlatina, and Mr. Percivall has satisfactorily treated 
of it in the second volume of his Hippopathology ; but no one, 
so far as I am aware, has noticed this malignant variety of it. 
Communications on this subject would be interesting to the pro- 
fession. — Y.] 
SINGULAR CASE OF STRICTURE OF THE RECTUM. 
By Mr. JAMES ROGERSON, V.S., Kirk ham. 
On the 10th of December 1838, a case commenced with me 
which did not terminate until the 1st of July 1839. Passing 
through Ballam on the 10th of December, I was stopped by a 
farmer, who wished me to look at a filly, two years old, saying 
that she had something that griped her. On examining her, I found 
her pulse 60, and strong ; she was constantly looking back to her 
