CASES OF EUSTACHIOTOMY AN1) Tit ACHEOTOM Y. 535 
The faeces were scanty, hard, and coated with mucus; and other 
symptoms indicating diffused mucous inflammation. It was 
quite impossible to administer medicine. Balls were coughed up 
as fast as they were attempted to be given, and drenching was 
attended with no better result. 
The one-year old colts were the first that were affected, and 
five of them were labouring under the disease when I was first 
called in. One of them, a fine colt by Equator out of Tallerand’s 
dam, was actually in a dying state from suffocation. 
Treatment. March 16^/z. — I immediately informed the steward 
that tracheotomy was indispensable. Consent was readily ob- 
tained, and the operation performed, which gave instantaneous 
relief. Not having a tracheotomy tube at hand, the barrel part 
of a swan’s quill became an excellent substitute. I next ab- 
stracted blood to the amount of Tbv, when evident symptoms of 
syncope presented themselves. After this I gave injections of 
the mag. sulph. in warm water, by means of the enema syringe. 
I blistered the throat, bandaged the legs, clothed the body, and 
made him as comfortable as 1 could. I then bled the other four, 
and applied blisters to their throats on the following day. 
1 7th . — I found the tracheotomy-patient much easier ; the re- 
spiration more tranquil, and readily carried on through the medium 
of the tube. The haggard dejected countenance, so evident on 
the previous day, betraying symptoms of approaching dissolution, 
had in some measure disappeared. The partial relief afforded 
was the mechanical result of the operation, and not from any 
considerable abatement of the inflammatory disease, for the pulse 
was 85 at the heart. The bowels had not acted, and the extre- 
mities were cold. The blister had made no progress, the tume- 
faction at the throat increased, and was as hard as before. Fo- 
mentations were applied for a considerable time, and the animal’s 
head was kept over a pailful of hot water. 
This treatment appeared to aggravate rather than abate the 
disease, and I determined on another vesicatory, which was well 
rubbed in, and a flannel bandage, saturated with the tinct. lyttse, 
applied to the throat. The injections were repeated ; the legs 
well hand-rubbed and bandaged, and the head hooded. The 
only medicine consisted of minim, vigint. aut trigint., acidi hydro- 
cyanici bis die in aq. frigid. Oj. He drank it eagerly. Repeated 
venesection was out of the question. The whole extent of mucous 
membranes was involved, which was evident from the debility 
and prostration of strength, the general sequela of epidemic 
disease. 
18M. — No better. Pulse 88. Bowels still constipated ; ex- 
tremities cold ; the swelling at the jaw and head stationary, and 
