340 ACCOUNT OF THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE 
characterise by the name of mucous fevers. The pails most 
generally affected were the mucous membranes of the respiratory 
passages. 
Of twenty-five horses attacked by this malady, and brought 
to the infirmary, one only died; and his death was attributed to 
a high degree of nervous irritation, caused by a blister designed to 
prevent pulmonary congestion. 
Among the other horses the progress of the malady was slow, 
accompanied by slight ulceration of the mouth, and considerable 
discharge of saliva. 
A restricted diet—small, but repeated bleedings—and anti- 
phlogistics united with mucilaginous substances or with tonics, 
as the case required, speedily abated the inflammation. 
A revulsion was then easily produced by frequent frictions on 
the skin, and the application of sinapisms and setons. 
The heat of the summer caused many inflammations of the 
digestive and respiratory passages. With these mucous fevers 
were often united, and they were characterised by a discharge of 
viscid mucus from the mouth, redness of the Schneiderian mem¬ 
brane, and injection of the conjunctiva. 
Of eight horses affected with staggers, four were cured hy revul¬ 
sive bleedings from the veins of the extremities, the continual ap¬ 
plication of cold liquids to the head, setons in the chest and back, 
and opium when the bowels were not constipated. 
The ligature of the carotid in a horse immobile whose head 
was forcibly drawn on one side, was attended with some benefit. 
Acupuncturation was tried without success, as well as all other 
means, in four cases of palsy in the horse, and two in the dog. 
Trombus (the tumour and ulceration produced by the effusion 
of blood into the cellular substance in venesection) has been 
often treated in the course of the year. The excision of the 
indurated part recommended by some veterinarians is bad practice. 
The old method of cure is far preferable. It consists in dilating 
the fistulous engorgements, then applying emollient and anodyne 
cataplasms for some time, and afterwards exciting suppuration 
and resolution by a deep cauterisation, when the cataplasms had 
produced sufficient effect. This mode of treatment has been in¬ 
variably attended with success. 
The section of the plantar nerves, recommended by the English 
veterinarians, and also fomentations of the feet, and a suitable 
(couvenable) shoe, afforded no relief in a case of contmction so 
great that the horse was exceedingly lame, and walked on the toe 
only. 
A bitch puppy discharged her faeces by the vulva. The anus 
was imperforate. It died a few days after the birth. A canal 
