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W. RIDGE. 
a few days after she was taken sick. At this time 1 diagnosed 
it simple sore throat, which I believed it was at the time, due 
to taking: cold. The owner said the stable door blew open 
one night and left her in a draught of air. I prescribed ex¬ 
ternal stimulants and electuaries. It was not until I saw her 
the third time, which was some four weeks after she was taken 
sick, that I decided it to be like the other case. She had a 
cough at first, deep and strong, but did not develop that 
peculiar, rasping cough until this time. Food and water re¬ 
turned by the nostrils, but not such marked irritation in breath¬ 
ing and never the suffocating symptoms. I prescribed iodide of 
potassium and tonics with varying results. At times there 
seemed some improvement. About three months later much 
worse symptoms developed, and it seemed quite probable the 
animal would starve to death. It died, starved to death, in 
about four weeks more. Autopsy the next day revealed only 
the same derangement as in the other case, with the exception 
the fold of the posterior-superior wall of the pharynx did 
not drop down as low, nor did it obstruct the entrance to 
the larynx. Only the entrance to the oesophagus was ob¬ 
structed by the fold. These cases, I believe, are due to para¬ 
lysis of the muscles of the pharynx, the results of a pharyn¬ 
gitis or laryngitis. The pterygoid muscle is perhaps the one 
most involved. In human medicine following serious cases of 
sore throat are observed, not unfrequently, paralysis of some 
of the parts, causing impediment in speech and inability to 
control fluids in swallowing, loss of voice, &c. There is a stal¬ 
lion in our town that has no voice, due if I mistake not to 
laryngitis when quite young. Roaring in many cases is pretty 
generally accredited to paralysis, and that the result of 
laryngitis. 
ABSCESS OF THE GUTTURAL POUCHES, 
By W. Ridge, Y.M.D., Trevose, Pa. 
(Paper read before the Pennsylvania Veterinary Medical Association). 
Bay mare, six years old, well bred, weighed about 925 
pounds, served by Epaulet September 23d, 1890. Taken sick 
