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CHOKING IN A HORSE. 
stance of very slight consistence : the Jihrine and the colouring 
matter of the blood had altogether disappeared. M. Peyronnie 
acknowledges that it was the only opportunity he had of ex¬ 
amining the blood of the rabid horse, and, therefore, is unable to 
say whether this is the usual appearance of the blood of the rabid 
horse, or of other rabid animals. 
[We must confess that we have never seen this singular 
affection of the blood, and we scarcely think that it would have 
escaped our observation in all the cases in which, for the sake 
of experiment, we have abstracted blood from the rabid animal. 
-Y.] 
CHOKING IN A HORSE. 
Bp Mr. J. Cooper, F.S., Coleshill. 
On the 13th of December 1834, I was requested by Mr. Um¬ 
bers, of Dunton Hall, to examine a bay horse that was taken 
suddenly unwell. On reaching the stable I found him coughing 
violently, and stamping with his fore feet: saliva ran from his 
mouth, which he occasionally attempted to swallow, but the 
greater part of it w'as returned through the nostrils. 
I was soon aware that there was some obstruction in the 
superior part of the throat. He had a few hours before been 
eating some Swedish turnips, several pieces of which then lay 
in his manger. I immediately concluded that a piece had lodged 
in the pharynx, and accordingly passed a whalebone probang 
down the cesophagus, and a rounded substance could be dis¬ 
tinctly seen driven before it. The horse after this appeared to 
be relieved ; he ate a few mouthfuls of hav, and drank some 
water ; he was then left for the night. 
14th. —1 was again sent for, the horse being much worse. He 
does not now cough ; and the pulse is 50, but the flanks heave 
very much: he refuses all food and drink ; has not lain down during 
the night; hangs down his head ; saliva, mingled with mucus, 
runs abundantly from his nostrils,although he repeatedly swallows 
much of it. V.S.lbvi; administered aloes jij, digitalis jj, pot. 
nit. jij, and ordered some gruel, which he takes freely from a 
bottle. Thinking the substance might have injured the throat, 
1 applied some infus. lyttae externally. 
15///.—Much the same; has dunged, and lain down during 
the night: the saliva continues to return through the nostrils. 
Blister the throat, and repeat the ball. He takes the gruel from 
