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RE-ABSORPTION OF PUS IN STRANGLES. 
coagulated lymph, a few adherent; peritoneum, mesentery, and 
intestines dark, gangrenous, congested, tearing on handling; 
the intestines, large and small, enormously distended with flatus, 
except about three feet of the lower portion of the ileum, from 
the caecum upwards, which was contracted and wrinkled into a 
thick cord-like form, terminating upwards in a short funnel- 
shape, where it joined the distended bowel. It would only admit 
two fingers, and was filled with yellow mucus ; its peritoneal and 
mucous coats only slightly inflamed : on cutting them up the 
section was white. The bowels contained some feculent matter. 
The spleen was contracted, and contained depositions of lymph. 
Only one portion of intestine was adherent to the peritoneum, and 
that portion was gangrenous. 
From the appearances I at once pronounced this, ileus. 
It was curious to see so little marks of excitement in the para- 
lized portion—the section white. 
[For the opportunity of inserting this singular case we are in¬ 
debted to Professor Dick.—Y.] 
A CASE OF THE RE-ABSORPTION OF PUS 
IN STRANGLES. 
By Mr. J. Hayes, Rochdale. 
In the beginning of May 1837, a brown colt, of the roadster 
kind, three years old, belonging to Mr. Hurst, of Caldermoor near 
this town, began to have strangles in the ordinary way. Mr. 
H. poulticed the tumour between the jaws, and brought it to 
suppuration. He then opened it and discharged the pus; and 
all appeared to him to go on in the usual manner. 
In about ten or twelve days, however, the parotid glands on 
each side began to enlarge, and speedily swelled to a very great size, 
so much so that it was with the greatest difficulty that the colt 
could swallow either food or water and he roared at each respi¬ 
ration very loudly. In this condition Mr. H. sent him to me. 
I rubbed the parts well with blister ointment, and in two days 
the tumours burst, and a little thin matter escaped. I enlarged 
the orifices, evacuated a great quantity of semi-purulent fluid, 
and inserted a seton through each gland. I kept on the 
discharge for twelve or fourteen days, and then let them heal, and 
all seemed to go on right, the colt having to all appearance got 
quite convalescent. In a few days he was turned out to grass, 
and had a feed of oats with beans every day. 
