A CASE OP STRANGLES. 
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all healthy, with the exception of a few patches of inflammation. 
The viscera of the chest exhibited no disease. An enormous 
tumour was attached to the right side of the back by a short 
neck: its situation was between the right kidney and liver, 
attached to both by slight adhesions; its form, before it was cut 
out, was like a large kidney, and firm in texture: when cut into, 
some of it was like “ a cow’s lure but it appears to have ori¬ 
ginated from a cluster of diseased mesenteric glands. A small 
opening appeared in the tumour whence pus had been discharged, 
and it was likewise enveloped in another sac, which had also 
burst, and the surrounding adhesions appeared to be in a state 
approaching to mortification. 
If you think it worth notice, I shall be happy to see it in The 
Veterinarian, with your observations as to its nature and 
duration: I think its origin has been about the time the shivering 
fit was observed, which is six weeks a^o. 
This is a case of strangles in which the mesenteric glands have 
been attacked, and the thickened mass which surrounded the 
abscess, and was like a “ cow’s lure,” was the adhesive matter 
thrown out to form the parietes of the abscess ; there is no doubt 
that the abscess had commenced to be formed at the time the 
shivering fit occurred. I have met with four or five cases exactly 
similar, and, beside the case mentioned in the process referred to, 
but which I did not recollect at the time of the examination ; in 
most of them, however, the existence of the tumour was, at least, 
suspected by the loss of flesh, which almost always occurs in 
diseases of the mesenteric glands. In the case in the trial there 
seemed some reason to suppose that the farriers had mistaken 
the pancreas for a diseased tumour; at all events, their account 
was not a very intelligent one: but the judges decided, I now 
think, in the only way they could, namely, that as the farriers 
swore to a matter of fact, that testimony was not to be overturned 
by the hypothesis of any one, whatever their experience or obser¬ 
vations might be, when they had not had the opportunity of ex¬ 
amining the parts themselves. While on this subject, I may take 
the opportunity of correcting an error which my friend the late Mr. 
Castley made in quoting my remarks on strangles, and which 
were lately quoted by Mr. Percivall. Instead of saying, or mean¬ 
ing to say, that the strangles might occur on any part of the 
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