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A CASE OF BRONCIIOTOMY. 
morning with a discutient embrocation: fomentations to be con¬ 
tinued to the wound, 
17 th .—Swelling gradually subsiding : a large slough on each 
side of the wound : breathes freely through the aperture. The 
wound to be dressed with digestive liniment, and to be fomented ; 
continue discutient embrocation to the swellings. 
19M.— Swelling going down ; sloughs not separated; aperture 
in trachea quite open. Continue remedies. 
I again plugged the trachea with my thumb, and found that 
the mare could breathe through the larynx, but with difficulty, 
and a great wheezing noise. 
23 d .—The throat is now nearly of its natural size; sloughs in 
the wound quite loose, but not come away ; lower part of the 
wound healing, and beginning to cover the lower portion of the 
opening in the windpipe ; breathing partly through the wound 
and partly through the nose. When I stopped up the trachea 
to-day it gave no inconvenience, as she breathed freely through 
the natural passages. The mare being the property of a farmer 
eight miles from hence, she was now taken home. 
March 10 th .—Brought to the yard for my inspection. Wound 
healed, except about an inch not cicatrized : she is quite well, 
and was rode to the town. 
In this case, I believe, there can be no doubt as to the pro¬ 
priety, indeed, the absolute necessity, of performing the opera¬ 
tion of bronchotomy. I am perfectly convinced, and so was 
every by-stander, that the mare must have died except immediate 
relief had been afforded her; and this is fully proved by the 
distress she showed, and her inability to breathe when the open¬ 
ing in the trachea was stopped up on the next day, for the pur¬ 
pose of ascertaining that fact. No untoward symptom arose from 
the operation, nor did she suffer any constitutional derangement 
in consequence. No medicine was administered, as, from the 
swelling of her throat, I considered any attempt to give ball or 
drench would be attended with more evil than good, especially 
as there seemed no pressing occasion for their exhibition. 
AN ACCOUNT OF THE GIRAFFE, 
WHICH LATELY DIED AT SANDPIT GATE. 
By Mr. W. J. Goodwin, V.S. to the King. 
The attention of British naturalists has of late been particu¬ 
larly directed to the giraffe, from the recent death of one of these 
animals in the King’s menagerie. It was brought to England 
