584 A CASE OF LARYNGITIS IN A HORSE. 
The kidneys had entirely lost their structure, particularly the 
one situated on the left side, which merely required the slightest 
pressure of the finger to break down its texture in any direction. 
They were both filled with a thick purulent matter, resembling 
coagulated urine. 
The pleura and the lungs shewed evident symptoms of chronic 
disease, and the heart was the largest I ever saw, weighing nearly 
eleven pounds. 'The walls of the right ventricle were not much 
thicker than a stout sheet of paper, while those of the left w’ere, T 
should say, nearly four inches in thickness. ' 
This horse had been in the possession of Mr. Compton for eight 
years, and, during the whole of that period, he had never had a days 
illness, nor had he been rested a single hour on supposition of such 
being the case. 
The largest calculus, and found where the intestine was ruptured, 
weighs 3 lbs. 13 oz., the smaller one 1 lb. 8oz. 
A CASE OF LARYNGITIS IN A HORSE. 
By Mr. T. G. Webb, Whitechapel Road. 
March ^^th, 1840.—I WAS requested to attend a brown geld¬ 
ing, eight years old, and fifteen hands high, that was at work in 
the Eclipse Bath and Bristol coach, the property of Mr. John 
Nelson, of the Bull Inn, Aldgate. The coachman complained that 
the horse had lately roared so badly that it was impossible to work 
him. 
On examination I found him to have Laryngitis. His throat 
was very sore—the parotid gland on each side was as large as a 
goose’s egg'—his cough was sore, attended b}'" a gurgling sound: 
when I pressed my hand upon his larynx he was in great pain. 
I bled him, and kept my finger on the pulse until it fluttered, and 
gave a ball composed of aloes 3ss, calomel nine grains, digitalis 5 ss, 
ant. tart, ^j, nit. pot. Jss. I also blistered the throat, and left four 
balls containing the same ingredients, one to be given every day. 
On the 25th, I ascertained that he was no better, and therefore 
ordered him to be brought home. He arrived home on the 29th, 
and on the 30th I passed one seton under the throat, and one on 
each side of the parotid gland. The setons were dressed with 
unguent, terebinth., and a ball given as before. The setons were 
dressed daily—the medicine was given as before, and he was ordered 
to have walking exercise. 
April 15/A.—Considerably better. Cough not so sore, and the 
glands appear to be getting less. Continue the same treatment. 
