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it, because there is always souietbing in the disease which it is 
impossible to produce, however we may try to place the subject 
of the experiment in the circumstances which are recognized as 
most proper to produce the affection which it is our intention to 
create. 
14. Contused Wounds of the Parietes of the Chest, without in 
jury to the lung .—It is rather to fill completely the outline which 
we had traced before we commenced our experiments that we 
now devote a line to this species of wounds, for, in truth, they do 
not merit serious attention. We have nothing to observe re¬ 
garding them, that all our readers, probably, have not had the 
opportunity of frequently observing. 
Journal, Sept. 1834. 
[To be concluded in llie next number.] 
POLYPUS IN THE PHARYNX. 
Bi/ Mr. S. Goodworth, F.<S., Driffield. 
I WAS called in a short time ago by a gamekeeper in this 
neighbourhood to look at a young bay mare that was sent to be 
slaughtered for the dogs. She had been under medical treat¬ 
ment for twelve months, and was considered incurable. She 
was four years old, and had the appearance of a well-bred 
animal. Before destroying her, the keeper wished to have my 
opinion, and, if possible, to save her. 
Her disease was said to be fits. She was taken into a pad- 
dock, and trotted two hundred yards and back again to the 
place where I stood, when she immediately fell, and had a most 
violent struggle for a short time ; she then rose, and was as well 
as ever. Before she fell, she took a deep inspiration, and 
when she could again respire she was relieved, and the fit 
passed off. 
I was convinced that there was an impediment at the top of 
the trachea which it would be necessary to remove, and I agreed 
to have the mare sent to my stable. 
Treatment .— I cast her and put a gag into her mouth ; I then 
introduced a probang, which required a little pressure in order 
to get it into the stomach ; and in drawing it up again it was im¬ 
peded by a lump in the throat, which brought on one of those 
severe struggles that I had before witnessed. When she re¬ 
covered from its effect, 1 introduced my arm to convince myself 
of the cause, and I found a substance which J endeavoured to 
burst or drag out: it escaped from my fingers, and I lost it. 
