626 SCIRRHUS IN THE C/ECUM OF A HORSE. 
the beating of the flanks was not so violent. We injected by the 
opening three ounces of warm water, in which two drachms of 
common salt had been dissolved, that we might provoke pulmo¬ 
nary action sufficiently strong to reject, or rather to detach, some 
portion of the false membrane, which we suspected to remain in 
the trachea. A violent fit of coughing came on a little while 
afterwards, which lasted a good ten minutes, and caused a re¬ 
jection from the nostrils of a portion of false membrane, pre¬ 
cisely like that voided by the mare, and of which we have spoken 
above. 
At 6 p.M. the animal was much better, and took some 
swallows of honeyed water. 
During the night he ejected other portions of false membrane, 
of different dimensions. 
2Qth ,—At 5 A.M. we withdrew the tube, in order that we might 
remove the mucus that partially obliterated its opening. While 
we were thus employed, a new access of cough took place, which 
caused the escape of a small portion of false membrane from the 
opening in the trachea. The same treatment was employed, with 
the addition of a seton to the chest. 
From this date the animal became better. The tube was not 
withdrawn until the 30th: the wound was then gradually healed, 
and perfectly cicatrized. In fine, all the symptoms gradually 
disappeared, and the horse was perfectly well on the 15th of May. 
Reeueil Med. Vel. Aout 1833. 
A Scirrhous Production in the Caecum of a Horse. 
By M. Lautour. 
Few things afford a greater proof, how often the most serious 
and mortal diseases are hidden (in the most extensive acceptation 
of the word) from the eyes of common observers, than the fol- 
lowinp; case:— 
The patient was a stallion, which M. Lautour had not lost 
sight of for more than five years, during the whole of which time 
he had only been once under medical treatment, and that for pul¬ 
monary catarrh, in 1827,and which had at length been thoroughly 
cured, as the post-mortem examination afterwards demonstrated. 
The animal appeared lively, and did his work well until the 21st of 
May, 1832, when an cedematous swelling appeared on the inside of 
the thigh. Until the 24th the oedema felt hot; the horse was 
bled twice, and he appeared to be much better: nevertheless, on 
the 25th, M. Lautour was called in again, and found the animal 
in a desperate state, stretched out like a dead horse, but having a 
hard pulse, and a stertorous and accelerated respiration. The 
