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He was "opened immediately after death. There was a little 
redness on the mucous membrane of the larynx. The same tint 
appeared more vividly at the middle portion of the small intes- 
tines, and towards the point of the cmcum. The stomach, perfectly 
sound, contained some food, and the first intestines abounded with 
a yellow viscid mucus. The liver and spleen, and the thoracic 
viscera, were healthy. The brain and spinal cord were slightly 
injected with blood. 
Inflammatory affections of the respiratory passages, laryngitis, 
laryngo- tracheitis, bronchitis, and pneumonia have been less fre- 
quent during the heat of summer than in the humid cold of spring 
and winter ; doubtless because the skin, often covered with perspi- 
ration, is exposed to sudden chills; also the ordinary means of 
treatment have been successful oftener and more readily, from the 
readiness with which the cutaneous perspiration is established. 
Among the affections, there has been one which our predecessors 
used to call gangrenous angina, although both during life, and after 
death, none of the tissues presented the character of gangrene. 
This horse, about ten years old, strong, and even a little fero- 
cious, in a very good state of condition, and during the last five 
years having not exhibited the slightest illness, was brought from 
the place at which its owner lived, a distance of two leagues, in 
order to be shod. He was led back to his own stable before night, 
and there was not a single symptom of illness. In the morning 
it was perceived that he had considerable difficulty in grasping his 
food, and still more in swallowing it. At seven o’clock in the 
evening he was taken to the farrier, who, perceiving that it was 
a serious case, consulted our professor of pathology. The lower 
part of the cheek, and the upper part of the throat immediately 
beneath the jaw, were swelled and flabby, slightly cold, but with- 
out much tenderness. A loud laryngeal sound was heard, and 
which increased when the animal ate anything. The appetite was 
good, but there was difficulty in swallowing. The breathing, how- 
ever, was not difficult, and the pulse was scarcely quicker or 
harder than in health. 
The farrier had already abstracted four or five pounds of blood, 
and had prescribed a warm emollient drink. He had also scarified 
the swelling, making his incisions tolerably deep, and extending 
from the projecting part of the larynx to the symphysis of the 
jaw. There ran from the wounds a little blood, mingled with a 
clear yellow-coloured serosity. The hot iron was immediately 
applied to the whole of this surface. Diaphoretic drinks, mingled 
with honey, were prescribed ; but it was impossible to administer 
them, on account of the violence of the patient and the danger of 
suffocating him. The posterior parts of his body were covered 
