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REPORTS OF CASES. 
fatal from starvation. Some time ago I was called to see a 
twelve-year-old mare. Found her lying down in her box; her 
owner gave history of her case as follows: “Bought her in a 
pasture with some other horses a few weeks ago ; first noticed 
that she didn’t keep in as good condition as the others, carried 
her head low and a little to the left, quidded her hay and swal¬ 
lowed with difficulty. She kept growing poor, and to-day had 
been found bleeding profusely from both nostrils; she bled until 
she sank from exhaustion and then the bleeding soon stopped.” 
A physician who was present at the time pronounced it hem¬ 
orrhage from the lungs. An empiric who had been treating her 
previous to this time agreed with the physician, and left homoeo¬ 
pathic medicine, which, in fifteen drop doses three times a day for 
eight days, would effect a complete cure. Unfortunately, I could 
not agree with them either in diagnosis, prognosis or treatment. 
On examining the fauces, could find nothing abnormal excepting 
a relaxed condition of the muscles. I diagnosed the case as a 
post-pharyngeal abcess, with an ulceration of the right guttural 
pouch which had caused a rupture of some artery. I gave a very 
grave prognosis, and prescribed stimulants, tonics and all the food 
she could swallow. She soon became stronger, and in two or 
three days, the weather being warm, she was turned out to graze. 
On going out to get her at night the owner found her dead, lying 
beside a large pool of blood. He sent for me to make a post¬ 
mortem, which 1 did the next morning. A shower hurried the 
post-mortem, but I found a large ulcer in the guttural pouch on 
the right side, involving the Eustachian tube and tissues as far as 
the posterior nares. The muscles posterior to the pharynx were 
infiltrated with pus, and evidences of profuse hemorrhage from 
arterial branches involved by the ulcer. 
The next case of the kind was at the “Malorm Stock Farm.” The 
patient, a five year old Hambletonian mare, had a peculiar green¬ 
ish discharge from both nostrils ; she did not thrive well during 
the past winter, and within the last five weeks had grown poor 
very fast, drank with difficulty and had this peculiar greenish 
discharge from the nostrils. There was soreness evinced on the 
right side of throat, a peculiar stiffness of the neck with the head 
