A CASE OF DROPSY IN THE UTERUS OF A COW. 267 
mation in the parotid glands and surrounding cellular tissue ; 
but the parts were not so much tumefied as to impede the action 
of the larynx. The serous membranes of the thoracic and abdo¬ 
minal viscera were healthy, except that the portion of small in¬ 
testine, which encircled a scirrhous mesenteric gland, was exces¬ 
sively contracted and in a high state of inflammation. The in¬ 
ternal structure of the tumour was cellular, and contained a large 
quantity of purulent matter; but the texture of the scirrhous 
portion was very thick, somewhat irregular, and apparently pos¬ 
sessed of little vascularity. This horse was purchased about the 
middle of August, fat, and apparently healthy ; at which period 
he was taken into the stable and liberally fed with corn, although 
his labour was little more than daily walking exercise. Previ¬ 
ously to the attack of the strangles, the groom frequently observed 
the horse striking his belly and throwing himself down whilst 
he was in the stable, as if he was labouring under some chronic 
abdominal pain; and during my attendance I found him in a 
recumbent position several times; a symptom which I have no 
recollection of having observed in cases of impeded respiration. 
Towards the end of that period the groom stated that he was 
generally down, or, to use his own words, “ he never saw a horse 
throw himself down with such rattles in his life. 
I have met with cases of strangles in which local tumour and 
abscess have supervened; but I do not regard this as one of the 
sequelae of that malady, because I conceive that the nature of 
the tumour, the animal's listlessness in the stable, and the fre¬ 
quency of lying down, were sufficiently indicative of the abdo¬ 
minal disease. However, it may appear doubtful whether an 
animal labouring under an organic disease could be fat, and even 
feed well up to the period that he was attacked by strangles; 
but when we consider the horse’s natural propensity to fat¬ 
ten, and the morbid insensibility of scirrhosities, it is, perhaps, 
not much surprising that the animal economy should have been 
so little impaired. _______ 
CASE OF DROPSY IN THE UTERUS OF A COW. 
By Mr. J. Steel, U.S., Biggar, N. B. 
I was called, on the 16th July, to see a cow belonging t( ? 
Mr. John Tweedy, farmer. Green Bank, in the parish of Welston, 
which was dropsical. The owner stated that she should have 
calved on the 15th of April, but had not: she was very much 
emaciated, the pulse quick, and the abdomen so large that her 
sides rubbed upon the door of the byre, which was of ordinary 
size, as she was going out or in. I proposed to tap her, but the 
