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J. F. BUTTERFIELD. 
suddenly part in vivid flashes of lightning and end in peals of 
distant thunder that portray the threatening storm that fills 
us with terror. 
Thanking you for your patient indulgence, I submit this 
subject for your thoughtful consideration. 
RESULTS OF LARYNGITIS OR PHARYNGITIS. 
By J. F. Butterfield, D.Y.M., Philadelphia, Pa. 
(A Paper read before the Pennsylvania Veterinary Medical Association.) 
It is rare that we have an inflammatory affection of the 
larynx without the pharynx showing more or less of the dis¬ 
ease. The same of inflammation of the pharynx. The inflam¬ 
matory action extends to and involves the larynx. They being 
in such close proximity in our patients, it is in many cases 
difficult to tell which is the original seat of the lesion, the 
pharynx or larynx. The results will differ, if the animal sur¬ 
vives the acute stages, in proportion as the different parts are 
affected. What I wish to call attention td is perhaps due to 
pharyngeal inflammation, more than to the same disease in the 
larynx. Two peculiar and interesting cases have made their 
appearance in my practice ; the more interesting because I 
have been unable to find any account of like cases in what few 
books or journals I have access to ; neither have I talked with 
any practitioner that has observed these results. When we 
had the first case 1 did not think much of it, but when we had 
the second it seemed as though others must have observed 
the same following sore throat. 
The first one I saw in May, 1885. The other in the spring 
of 1889. . . 
The first one I did not see until two or three months alter 
it was first sick. The other I saw at different times until it 
died. The symptoms, as I saw and learned them from then- 
owners, were as follows: The owner of the first one came 
to my place about the middle of May, said he had an eight- 
year-old horse, that after being driven in a rain storm in win¬ 
ter had a severe trouble in the throat or head, that he dis- 
