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Cases of Croupal Angina, with false Membranes 
THROWN OUT ON THE PITUITARY ONE. 
By JM. Riss, to the ^th Chasseurs. 
The name of croup has been given to an inflammation of the 
larynx, of the trachea, and of the bronchi; and which has for its 
distinctive character, to be quickly followed by the formation of 
false membranes, that cover the interior of the air-passages, and 
produce difiiculty of breathing, suffocation, 8cc. 
About half past eight o’clock on the evening of the 1st of 
April, 1829, we were informed that there was a fire in one of the 
stables of the barracks at Neuf-Brissach, which were occupied 
by the horses of our regiment. M. Meyer and myself imme¬ 
diately went there. On our arrival, the colonel ordered us to take 
all possible care of two horses that had been nearly stifled in the 
stable where the fire had broken out. The following was the ac¬ 
count which was given us of the affair. 
The guard of the stable had been absent a few minutes, and 
on his return he found the stable filled with smoke. He gave the 
alarm of fire, and his companions speedily arriving, some of them 
occupied themselves in removing the horses, which were twelve in 
number, while others threw water on the burning litter. For a 
moment it was thought that all the horses had been saved; when, 
from the noise which they made in plunging about and in 
coughing, it was perceived that these had been forgotten. They 
were, however, at length got out, with great difficulty and danger. 
They were ahorse and a mare belonging to the third squadron. 
All the hair of the tail, and that which covered the hinder ex¬ 
tremities, and partly under the belly, was burnt off*, without, 
however, the skin being materially injured. They could scarcely 
stand, except with their legs quite wide apart; they were co¬ 
vered with perspiration, and there ran from the nostrils of the 
mare, which was very delicate, a great quantity of yellow mucus; 
and there was considerable weeping. The breathing was quickened, 
and extremely laborious in the horse, accompanied by a cough, 
particularly sonorous, and the fits of which were frequent: the 
air expired was hot. The principal difference between these two 
animals was, that in the horse the pulse was full and oppressed, 
while in the mare it w^as small and accelerated. 
We ordered them to be led to our infirmary, and abstracted 
ten pounds of blood from the jugular of each. I then directed the 
administration, every hour, of gargles, composed of w^ater with 
honey dissolved in it, and slightly acidulated j emollient fumi¬ 
gations for the nostrils, and injections of the same kind. 
At two o’clock in the morning there was little change in the 
symptoms already described. 
