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RE-ABSORPTION OF PUS IN STRANGLES. 
a seton or two there, but the colt was in such a weak and low 
state, that I was afraid he would not be able to bear the whole at 
once. The sheep-skin was renewed twice a-week, which, together 
with the liniment, produced a constant and considerable discharge, 
that was kept up for three weeks. During this time he had a 
tonic ball every day composed of gentian, nitre, sulphate of 
copper, crocus of antimony, and camphor, beat up with Venice 
turpentine, sometimes substituting the sulphate of iron for that of 
copper. 
After the first five days a little improvement was visible. On 
the 1st of July he was able to lie down, and rise of himself, 
and also to walk without danger of falling. Thus he continued 
to mend gradually in every respect. In the middle of July he 
was turned out to grass with one liberal feed of beans every day. 
He remained at grass in the daytime, and up at night, all the 
last winter and until June 1838. He was then taken up, worked 
gently for a short time at first, and now the owner rides or drives 
him the same as any of his other horses. He is in excellent 
condition, and fine in his coat, and appears as sound as any 
other horse. 
Is this a corroborative case of the re-absorption of pus? a 
re-deposit, and again re-absorption, and final removal of the whole ? 
Was it the stimulating effect of the continued application to the 
loins, and the rowel under the jaws, which acted as an outlet for 
the virus or essence of the disease ; the tonics which were ad¬ 
ministered internally assisting the absorbents in again taking it 
up and conveying it out of the system ? If you think this case 
worth recording in that ever welcome monthly visitor, The 
Veterinarian, it is quite at your service. 
[This is a very interesting and satisfactory case of the re-absorp¬ 
tion of pus, and the very peculiar and dreadful consequences of 
it. This too frequent and so long unsuspected cause of fatal 
disease, is now proved beyond the possibility of doubt. Pro¬ 
fessor Dick and Mr. Castley first directed our notice to the 
collections of matter in various parts of the frame which occa¬ 
sionally succeeded to farcy; but it is still more lately—and 
we are there indebted to a French veterinarian, M. Renault— 
that these secondary diseases have been traced to their true 
source, the re-absorption of pus. What important light does 
this throw on the proper mode of treating strangles and ab¬ 
scesses of all kinds—the hastening of the secretion of this 
fluid, and the full and perfect discharge of it! 
The present case illustrates a singular point attending this 
absorption. The colt was sadly tender about the loins, and on 
