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CASE OF ABSCESS IN THE LUNGS. 
By the same. 
Some years ago I was attending a cart mare with a bad foot, 
from matter having formed under the sole, and broken out at the 
coronet. I had been in attendance about nine days; and al¬ 
though my patient was rather on the improve, yet there still re¬ 
maining a good deal of inflammation around the coronet, a dose 
of physic was directed to be given (she had had one before). Two 
days after, I went to see the mare (six miles from Oswestry), 
and, to my great astonishment, was informed that she had died 
about two hours before my arrival. Upon inquiring as to the 
cause of death, I was told, not very good humour edily t that my 
physic had killed her. I asked if it had purged her violently ? 
The reply was, “ No ; we only gave it yesterday, and it had not 
operated at all.” I said, We will examine her, and then, perhaps, 
we shall be better satisfied about the matter. Her chest being 
opened, the mystery was unravelled. It was deluged with pus; 
and there were then in the lungs several large abscesses, one of 
which contained at least a quart of pus. The case was now plain 
enough—a large abscess in the lungs had burst and suffocated 
the mare. The owner was perfectly satisfied ; but had I not 
been present and had the mare opened, she would have been 
buried as she was, and I should have obtained the merit of kill¬ 
ing her; as the gentleman to whom she belonged declared, that 
he believed the mare to be as sound as any horse he had in his 
possession. She ate her food to the last, and lay down very 
much to ease her diseased foot. 
A SUCCESSFUL CASE OF TETANUS. 
By Mr. F. King, V. S., Stanmore. 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian.” 
Gentlemen, 
I at last set about fulfilling my promise. If this case appears 
to you sufficiently interesting, it is much at your service. We 
all know, that where injuries have been followed by tetanus, 
the cases (the immediate consequences of the accident itself) 
have generally appeared to go on uncommonly well. I never 
before or since had an opportunity of seeing, after the disease 
was established , so much mischief done ; and the progress of the 
disorder so little influenced thereby. Where the disorder has 
succeeded docking, I have never seen it arrested, or in any way 
