SCARLATINA IN HORSES. 
593 
Treatment .—In two cases, early venesection, followed up by 
the exhibition of brisk purgative and diuretic medicine, with fre¬ 
quent walking exercise, proved completely successful. One case 
occurred, however, which had a fatal termination, though I was 
afterwards induced to attribute the circumstance, in some mea¬ 
sure, to excess of walking exercise, which was given with the 
intention of keeping down the anasarca: this is the case 1 shall 
relate. 
A brown colt, the property of Sir A. F., who had undergone 
the operation of castration six or eight months before, was ad¬ 
mitted into the hospital with a catarrhal flux from the nose, and 
the Schneiderian membrane everywhere covered with scarlet 
spots, looking like so many small patches of extravasated blood. 
The lips were prodigiously tumefied, and had the same tubercu- 
lated chorded feel that farcy would give them. The submaxil¬ 
lary glands on both sides much enlarged, as well as the lymph¬ 
atic glands of the breast and thighs. No anasarca : the legs 
perfectly fine. Respiration augmented. Pulse 100. No appe¬ 
tite. Indisposition to move; and much apparent inability to do 
so in the hind quarters. Bloodletting, purges, and diuretics, 
were prescribed, and exercise enforced ; but all to no purpose. 
Post-mortem examination .—The lungs and other viscera in a 
healthy condition. The skin, from the parts from which it was 
stripped, exhibited precisely the same scarlet spotted aspect 
which the nasal membrane did during life. There was no ulcer¬ 
ation in the membrane of the nose; nor any collection of fluid 
within the sinuses of the head. 
I shall feel obliged to any reader of The Veterinarian 
who will enlighten me on this subject; for at present, I must 
confess, I feel myself in much obscurity. 
THE USE OF CHLORIDE OF LIME IN FISTULOUS 
WITHERS IN A COW. 
By Mr . T. Holford, V. S ., Northwich. 
July 2d. —This morning I was requested by my friend, George 
Woolrich, Esq., Sutton Hall, near Middlewich, to examine a 
cow's back that had hitherto baffled all attempts to cure it. The 
wound had been dressed with what the cowman called friendly 
oils, &c. On examination, I found her affected with fistula of 
the withers, the sinuses of which ran on both sides of the chine, 
emitting a very offensive smell: two, the most aggravated, run¬ 
ning perpendicularly between each scapula and the ribs. I was 
