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tained no faecal matter. The small intestines, however, 
showed considerable inflammation ; but, on coming to the 
stomach, it was found, that a portion of the duodenum 
(nearly its whole length) had become lacerated, and protruded 
through that portion of peritonaeum which connects the sto¬ 
mach with the spleen. The mucous coat of the stomach was 
much inflamed. The vessels of the mesentery were consider¬ 
ably distended, and the strangulated portion of intestine was 
going on to sphacelus. 
STRANGLES AND ITS SEQUELAE. 
By Page Wallis, M.R.C.Y.S., Cambridge. 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian .” 
The following case may not be uninteresting to the 
readers of your valuable periodical. And, first, I must give 
you the history of a black cart-colt, which I was summoned 
to attend to on June 14th for strangles. There being general 
febrile symptoms with tumefaction of the submaxillary and 
parotid glands, I ordered the animal to be kept in a loose 
place, to have nutritious diet, and gentle fever medicine. 
The disease went through its course with the formation of ab¬ 
scess in the left submaxillary and right parotid glands. I at 
once determined to open them, and a large quantity of well- 
digested pus escaped. I attended the horse up to the 2d 
of July. Since then he has been in a perfect state of con¬ 
valescence. At the time of this animal’s illness, the patient 
in question was shut up with him in the same place. I had 
frequently observed to the owner on the perilous situation of 
the bay colt. He said, “ They having always been together 
at pasture, he did not feel inclined to separate them.” My 
first attention w r as drawrn to the bay thorough-bred colt on 
June the 23d, in the course of one of my visits to the former 
patient. The man complained of his being off his appetite, 
and of his coat looking dead and rough, and his skin being 
tight. There was protrusion of the head, from inflammation 
going on in the throat. I at once gave my opinion as to the 
case being the same in nature as that of the black horse. I 
therefore ordered the throat to be stimulated, and the patient 
to be kept on cooling, but nutritious diet. From his irritable 
and vicious temper, all attempts to give medicine proved in¬ 
effectual. On my next visit, the 26th of June, the animal 
appeared to be going on very favorably, and he kept im- 
