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in the same way, a little at a time. The rectum was emptied 
three or four times in the clay with the hand, and frequent in¬ 
jections of decoction of marshmallows or honeyed water were 
administered. 
Towards the third, fourth, or fifth day the patients generally 
began to suck up some moisture, and a few days afterwards 
they drank with tolerable ease. The trismus having relaxed, 
we were enabled to give them a little bread, and, perhaps, some 
hay. The muscular coat of the intestines also then began to 
act a little, so that, after the stimulus of the hand, it would con¬ 
tract upon itself, and a few very dry pellets would be evacuated. 
It was about the fourteenth or fifteenth day of the illness when 
copious sweats spontaneously broke out on the horse; and, from 
the moment of that critical evacuation, the symptoms of amend¬ 
ment became more evident. No augmentation of the cutaneous 
secretion, nor of any other evacuation, was evident in either of 
the asses. One of the asses, both of which came into the hos¬ 
pital on the 16th of July, was able to return to his work on. the 
10th of the following month; the other was then convalescent, 
and could lie down and raise himself with a little help. 
During the course of that summer, the hottest weather gene¬ 
rally occurring when the wind blew strong from the north or the 
east, there were sudden alternations of unusual cold. This pro¬ 
duced a crowd of inflammations, whether of the pleura or pul¬ 
monary tissue, or the mucous coat of the respiratory passages, as 
LARYNGITIS, PHARYNGITIS, and BRONCHITIS. The maladies 
presented a character purely inflammatory, and with few danger¬ 
ous complications; that is to say, the treatment was generally 
followed with success, when it was resorted to at an early period. 
A case of laryngo-tracheitis, accompanied with a loud, hoarse 
sound in the act of breathing, and that would not yield to bleed¬ 
ing, was cured by the application of a blister to the throat. 
An intense pharyngitis, with enlargement of the sub-parotid 
gland, and extending over the upper part of the left side of the 
neck, having been neglected at an early stage, terminated in an 
indurated tumour that resisted every application, and became a 
mechanical cause of compression of the cesophagus. Deglutition 
having become impossible, the animal died of inanition. 
