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usual, and given with an intention to rally the powers of the 
animal, it results that intermittent fever, for such it was at first, 
becomes continual, and then only the veterinarian is called in, 
unless the patient is valuable, or the master or the groom is 
more than usually attentive. 
Whether, however, this febrile reaction has assumed a con¬ 
tinuous or intermittent type, I am far from considering it as es¬ 
sential; for we are now beginning to regard many of these diseases 
not as primary affections of the organs which seem to sufter, but 
as the result of sympathy with some point of irritation. 
In the cases which I have related, the febrile action could be 
plainly traced to this sympathetic influence. In the first in¬ 
stance, the patient had been exhausted by copulation too fre- 
C|uent for his strength; and in the other, by food of too stimu¬ 
lating a nature. 
Journal^ Janvier 1833. 
CYNANCHE LARYNGITIS ERYSIPELATA (Q>- CEL- 
, LULARIS.—L.W.) 
Mr, Meyer, Jun., F.aS., Newcastle-under-Bhie, 
This is a disease which has hitherto escaped the notice of 
veterinary authors, but which, from its rapid and fatal termina¬ 
tion, cannot be brought too early before the attention of veteri¬ 
nary practitioners. The horse, as well as the cow, is subject not 
only to cynanche pharyngitis and cynanche laryngitis, but like¬ 
wise bronchitis, after the ordinary characters of active inflamma¬ 
tion in general. They also are both subject to this very peculiar 
but rare affection, which I have designated by the name of 
Cynanche Laryngitis Erysipelata. I have witnessed it both 
in the horse and the cow. The animal shall be well over night, 
and the next morning you shall find its throat sw'elled u] 3 , from 
ear to ear ; the swelling not only filling up the cavity betwixt the 
rami of the lower jaw, but likewise extending itself with amaz¬ 
ing rapidity up towards the back of the head and neck, and 
likewise down the sternal muscles in front, terminating by tliat 
abrupt cedematous edge so cliaractcristic of erysipelatous inflam¬ 
mation. The breathing is accomplished with great difficulty, 
and with a loud whistling noise ; the nostrils distended ; the 
countenance anxious ; great restlessness, arising from a sense of 
suffocation ; pulse from 70 to 80 ; loss of appetite ; bowels 
constipated, or tlie fieces being covered with slime and effused 
lymph. If instant relief is not afforded, it runs its fatal career in 
the course of from twelve to twenty-four or forty-eight hours. 
