A NEEDLE IN' THE TONGUE OF A HORSE. 357 
first had been ill about twenty-four hours; he had been running 
at different objects so violently as to lay bare the frontal bones. 
When I entered the fold, he was drinking filthy water, obtained 
by having scraped a hole with his fore foot, and which filled with 
the drainings of the dung. I approached him with a stick, 
which I held out, when he made a rush at me, and then nibbled 
at the stick. This sheep continued in nearly the same state for 
four days, except getting gradually weaker. The other two 
exhibited the same symptoms until the third day, when I found 
them lying on their sides, and unable to rise. One sheep died 
on the fourth day; the first taken died on the fifth day; the 
other, which had been lying forty-eight hours, was destroyed. 
I examined the sheep that was first taken as well as I was 
able, but I could not get any one to touch the animal, or to . 
afford me the least assistance. The stomachs were filled with 
dirt, filth, and indigestible substances, as stones, sticks, &c. 
They were inflamed in patches, but not generally so. There 
was an uncommonly foetid smell when they were opened. The 
liver was unusually pale. The lungs were a little flushed, and 
had a few almost black spots, about the size of a hazel-nut: 
there was likewise some inflammation about the fauces. The 
brain was not examined. 
A NEEDLE. IN THE TONGUE OF A HORSE. 
By Mr. W. Young, V.S., Muirhead of Garnkirk, -N. B. 
On the 13th day of September, 1833, a chesnut gelding was 
shewn to me, the property of Mr. J. Callender, innkeeper, near this 
place, who said that he had eaten almost nothing for the last 
three weeks, although he had had his teeth rasped. He thought 
there was something wrong about his throat, as he could not 
swallow, although he was quite hungry for meat. The pulse was 
about the natural standard, the countenance dull, fcetid breath, 
much enlargment in the channel under the lower jaw, and 
rising within the mouth around the frsenum of the tongue, of a 
dark pale colour there, and very tender: on one side of the tongue 
was a laceration, as if done by the ragged edges of the grinders. 
I was of opinion that the source of irritation was under the 
tongue. I could not arrive at any known cause for this, nor any 
account of violence done to the tongue. I rubbed the external 
enlargement with stimulating liniment, and inserted a rowel a 
little superior to it. 
17 th. —It was reported to me that the external tumour was 
certainly ready to be opened. I punctured it with a lancet, and 
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