A CASE OF ABSCESS OF THE HEART. 
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and in due time went on to suppuration, was opened, and an im¬ 
mense quantity of purulent matter discharged. The mare was 
again considered doing well, looked lively, fed well, and was 
regaining her condition, when a messenger called on me one 
evening, requesting my immediate attendance, as the mare was 
considerably worse. On my arrival, I found her in a dreadful 
state; her left fore foot extended, the sweat pouring off her, 
pulse considerably above 100, her breathing very laborious, and 
her countenance exhibiting such signs of distress, as are more 
easy for the reader to conceive than me to describe : in a short time 
she fell down, and died. The next morning I went to examine 
her, when I found the abdominal viscera with the lungs quite 
healthy; the pericardium was much thickened in its substance, 
and highly inflamed: on removing it, a large tumour was dis¬ 
covered in the muscular substance of the heart, on the left side 
near its base, containing half a pint of thick white matter of 
the consistence of cream. I ought to have observed, that, soon 
after the abscess on her loin was opened, she was observed to 
stand with the left fore foot considerably advanced, and on being 
moved she invariably returned it to that position : little notice 
was taken of this circumstance, which was attributed to the 
irritation occasioned by a rowel I had previously inserted in 
her chest, fearing, as she had a cough, the inflammation might 
fix on her lungs. Now, in my opinion, this may safely be con¬ 
sidered as one of the sequelae of strangles, and I think it very 
extraordinary that so much disease should be going on in such 
a vital part, and be unaccompanied by any observable constitu¬ 
tional disturbance; for the afternoon before she died, the mare 
had been turned out, had grazed well, and was considered by 
all around her to be rapidly advancing towards convalescence. 
I have before met with tumours following, and no doubt the 
consequence of strangles formed in the flank and at the point 
of the shoulder, as have also, I have no doubt, many of my pro¬ 
fessional brethren. 
Shipton, 25 March, 1832. 
PATHOLOGICAL FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS ON 
THE DISEASE TERMED FELTRIC, IN THE OLD 
SCHOOL—BY THE NEW, ANASARCA. 
By Mr. Samuel Brown, V. S. Melton Mowbray. 
This is evidently a disease of the vascular system; but whe¬ 
ther it is an increased action of the capillaries or a diminished 
one of the absorbents, I will leave others to determine, it usu- 
