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A CASE OF STRANGLES, FOLLOWED BY THE PRO¬ 
DUCTION OF AN ENORMOUS MESENTERIC 
GLAND. 
By Mr . Thompson, V.S., Beith, N.B . 
There was a case of veterinary jurisprudence reported in the 
August Number of The Veterinarian respecting a supposed 
growth in a horse, and which has caused much curiosity and 
interest in the veterinary world, as to the question whether such 
a growth existed, or was of the extent reported in the two farriers’ 
evidences. 
Having been so fortunate as to have met with a growth of 
something of a similar nature, and situated about the same place, 
and likewise of a good size, but not such as to close the rectum 
or fundament, which, I think, impossible from the situation 
mentioned, it struck me that a personal inspection of it might 
be acceptable to you ; I have therefore forwarded to you the 
tumour with the intestines attached by the mesentery. 
The history of the case, so far as I could learn, is thus:—A 
young horse, four years old, the property of Mr. Love, of Threep- 
wood, in this parish, about six weeks,ago was attacked with 
shivering. He was bled, and the shivering left him ; but it was 
soon discovered that he was labouring: under strangles. Poultices 
were applied to the sub-maxillary tumour ; suppuration went on 
well enough, the wound gradually closed, and the animal 
was, up to this date (October 8, 1833), in good condition, but 
only the coat a little staring, which is common in strangles. 
He took his supper well last night, and was found about four 
o’clock in the morning unwell. I was sent for for the first time: 
and arriving about six, I found him breathing laboriously ; his 
pulse imperceptible; ears and legs cold : auscultation was applied, 
when the sound was like a barrel partly empty. Blood had 
been drawn before I arrived; it was of the darkest venous hue, 
and flowed with difficulty. He did not look at his sides as in 
colic, nor lie down until he was exhausted, and then only thrice 
before death. When lying, his breathing was much accelerated ; 
the pupils of the eyes were dilated ; and he frequently moaned : 
no medicine was given, as I pronounced the case to be hopeless. 
The horse died about twelve a.m., and was immediately 
opened. About three gallons of fluid were in the cavity of the 
belly, of a whitish colour, with some flakes of pus intermixed. 
The omentum was ruptured, as red as scarlet, and highly 
vascular. The peritoneum was slightly inflamed. The intestines 
