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A HOUSE CHOKED. 
just by to bleed her, while another person walked her about; 
but she had scarcely walked twenty yards, before she fell, and 
died. 
On the same day she was opened, and on the caecum there 
was a tumour as large as a man’s head. It was cut off, and 
preserved for me to see. The bowel was full of blood. 
On the next day I was sent for to examine this tumour. Its 
structure was of a kind of musculo-cartilaginous nature, and 
through it there were running several large bloodvessels. Close 
to one of them an abscess (as large as one could put one’s 
fist into) had formed, and had completely ulcerated through its 
coats for an inch around, and which abscess communicated with 
the intestine by an opening four inches long, and large enough 
to introduce the thumb into it. There was another abscess in 
the tumour as large as the other. I am sorry that I cannot give 
a better description of so interesting a case, on account of not 
being present at the opening of the animal. 
A HORSE CHOKED. 
Also communicated hy Mr. Cartwright. 
On the 8th of October 1837, Mr. Haslam, of Drayton, hair 
manufacturer, sent his brown hack horse, sixteen hands high, 
to this town on his way to Chester fair. As soon as became into 
the stable, at the White Lion Inn, he commenced eating hay, 
and the first mouthful or two that he took stuck in his throat, at 
about nine inches before it enters the thorax: he immediately 
afterwards became in great pain, straining, and attempting to 
vomit. This was about 1 p.m. 
2 P.M. —I first saw him. He was still in great pain, attempt¬ 
ing to vomit, drawing himself up in a heap about the chest and 
fore quarters; and while straining, his head would be near tlie 
ground, and he in a stooping position. The muscles about the 
neck and part of the chest were in a violent state of contraction 
when any pressure was made on the obstruction. The tumour 
seemed to be, in the thickest part, as large as one’s wrist, and 
bevelled off in every direction for the space of four inches or 
more round. It had the appearance almost as if the oesophagus 
was ruptured, and the meat diffused. The tumour extended 
more across the front of the windpipe than upwards and down¬ 
wards. Occasionally he would vomit a quantity of mucus and 
slimy matter through his nostrils. 
