MKTASTASIS OF THE ABSCESS OF STRANGLES. 71 
centrating in the mysentery, and informed the owner that I had 
strong reasons to believe an abscess was forming internally. I 
gave him eight grains of iodine daily. 
Sept.Ath .—I saw him again : he was lively, but ate sparingly. 
Qth ,—I was sent for in haste to see him. I found him rolling 
about, looking back at his flanks, and evidently labouring under 
great abdominal pain. The countenance was peculiarly dejected ; 
the pulse 90, and extremely weak; and the bowels constipated. 
My opinion that an abscess had formed somewhere in the abdo¬ 
men was strengthened by these symptoms. I despaired of my 
patient, but gave him a solution of aloes, with a view to relieve 
the bowels. The intestinal pains increased until eleven p.m., 
when he expired in great agony. 
7th. — Post-mortem Appearances .—As the harness maker had 
opened the body and removed the intestines from the abdomen 
previous to my arrival, I cannot be precise as to the actual seat 
of a tremendous abscess that had been formed contiguous to the 
ileum. When the intestines were straightened, it was situated 
against the ileum, about six yards from the stomach : the cyst 
contained a full quart of thick purulent matter. Its coat was 
cartilaginous, and an inch thick. The abscess was easily dissect¬ 
ed from the intestine. The caecum was mortified—the omentum 
was black and rotten—the mysentery was thickened and yellow ; 
the yellow appearance I attributed to the effect of the iodine. 
On prosecuting my dissection, I discovered another abscess, 
containing a pint of pus, situated at the superior and posterior 
part of the stomach, between the muscular and cuticular coat. 
The cuticular membrane was considerably thickened. 
1 recorded a case of strangles that terminated fatally, where 
an abscess formed near the kidnies, invol. ii of The Veterina¬ 
rian : since that time I have seen a case of an abscess forming 
on the brain, and connected with strangles. 
In order to fill up this paper, I will forward you two singular 
cases of affections of the eyes. A gentleman, six miles from this 
town, has a horse, eight years old, that has had several at¬ 
tacks of ophthalmia within the last three years. He has now an 
opacity on the inferior part of the transparent cornea of each eye, 
precisely alike. The crystalline lens of the off eye is perfectly 
clear; but there are two very minute cataracts in the lens of the 
near eye, not much larger than the point of a pin. The opacities 
on the transparent cornea are sometimes larger and sometimes 
smaller, usually about the size of a pin’s head. 
A farmer in this neighbourhood has a colt, three years old, that 
was foaled with only one eye, which eye has had a continual dis- 
