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had returned, and was mixed with blood. The septum membrane 
was clear, the throat very painful, the cough weak, repeated and 
always followed with symptoms of choking. Three days later he 
died. 
At the post-mortem 1 found the mucous membrane of the 
larynx much swollen, and covered with ulcerations; the trachae, 
at about three centimeters from the bifurcation of the bronchia, 
also showed a number of them. The left lung contained a crop 
of abscesses, some in a state of suppuration and others filled with 
matter of a calcareous appearance. The liver and the spleen also 
contained a number of them. All these were evidently lesions of 
glanders. If now we take into consideration the history of this 
case, the symptoms presented and the changes that followed the 
use of ol. terebinth, I think that we have confirmed the results 
mentioned by the German professors, and that the process is well 
worth the trouble of further test and experiment. 
AN INTERESTING DETAIL OF EXPERIENCE WITH DISEASE IN 
THE WEST. 
SPASMS OF THE MUSCLES OF THE EPIGLOTTIS—A TERRIBLE 
DISEASE AMONG STALLIONS. 
By George S. Witter. 
{From the Breeder's Gazette .) 
There is a disease termed by veterinarians spasms of the mus¬ 
cles of the larynx or spasms of the muscles of the glottis and 
epiglottis. The larynx is an irregular cartilaginous tube forming 
the upper extremity of the trachea (or windpipe) and is the or¬ 
gan that produces the sound called neighing; the glottis is the 
upper part of the larynx, and the epiglottis is the lower part, or 
lid, which opens and closes the larynx; therefore, I call the dis¬ 
ease “ spasms of the muscles of the epiglottis ” because it is the 
contraction of these muscles that causes the larynx to close. 
When a horse is affected with this disease the larynx becomes 
partly spasmodically closed, and sometimes entirely closed, but 
when the latter occurs death follows immediately. In the follow¬ 
ing five cases of this terrible disease which have occurred in our 
