132 DEATH FROM AN ABSCESS IN THE SUBMUCOUS TISSUE. 
domen. The villous coat of the organ was much inflamed 
in patches, and on its upper part several abscesses had 
formed. Two were as large as an egg. They contained 
thick matter, which had evidently been formed some time 
since. It is singular that the ingesta, which was still within 
the stomach was dry, more especially as the horse took, 
during his illness, large quantities of gruel, which would seem 
to have passed directly into the duodenum. Within the large 
intestines a coffee-coloured fluid was found. 
DEATH FROM AN ABSCESS IN THE SUB- 
MUCOUS TISSUE OF THE POSTERIOR PART 
OF THE TRACHEA. 
By Clement Stevenson, M.R.C.Y.S., Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 
The subject of the following case was a gray cart¬ 
horse, the property of Mr. John Davidson, miller, of this town. 
My attention was first directed to him on the 1st of Sep¬ 
tember last, when it was observed that he was suffering from 
a frequent and distressing cough, accompanied with a slight 
loss of appetite and other indications of ill-health. The 
pulse and respiration were, however, but little affected. I had 
him put into a well-ventilated box, and applied a mustard 
cataplasm to the neck, over the whole course of the trachea, 
and gave him a moderate dose of sedative medicine. 
September 3d.—Since last report he has fed better; the 
pulse is now scarcely disturbed, the cough is relieved, as is 
also the respiration. On the evening, however, of this day I 
was hastily sent for, when I found my patient apparently 
dying from apnoea. He was pawing violently with his fore 
feet, and almost continually coughing, by which large quan¬ 
tities of mucus were discharged from both the nostrils 
and mouth. The noise which accompanied these efforts 
was occasionally quite shrill, and could be heard at a con¬ 
siderable distance. Great tenderness was likewise evinced 
on the slightest pressure beingapplied to the trachea or larynx. 
H e was disinclined to move, but still would seize upon food 
as if affected with a voracious appetite. 
With great difficulty I performed the operation of tracheo¬ 
tomy, but which relieved him so little that I came to the natural 
conclusion that the obstruction, whatever it might be, was 
situated in the lower portion of the trachea, and that the 
