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old, due to foal and owned by my father, and was kept in the 
same barn with my horses. 
She was a victim of influenza in April, accompanied with 
laryngo-phar) ngitis. The first day that I noticed her she 
was dull and dejected, mucous membrane red, legs and ears 
cold, pulse 120, temperature 104°, weak, staggering gait, cough, 
sore throat, with great prostration and loss of appetite. 
She was placed in a boxstall, well bedded and ventilated, but 
not drafty, with warm clothing and bandages. Prescribed 
belladonna, quinine and gl} r cyrrhiza, internally given with 
syringe every three hours; ammonia liniment to the throat 
followed by many tail bandages. 
The symptoms remained stationary for four days, and the 
animal was doing fairly well until the fifth day; when i 
reached the barn my father, in her stall, called to me saying 
that the mare was choking to death. I rushed to the stall 
and while the mare was almost suffocated and had fallen to 
her knees, I thrust my jack-knife into the trachea, about mid¬ 
way between the inferior maxilla and sternum, and relief was 
instantaneous. 
I then ordered my tracheotomy tube from the office, but 
it was broken on the way, so I applied a twitch to one ear 
and dissected out a part of two of the rings of the trachea and 
with strings around the neck I tied and inserted a funnel un¬ 
til I went to the tin-shop and had a tube made to order. The 
temperature rose to 106°, with all other symptoms increased 
in severity. 
The tube was removed twice a day and cleansed in car- 
bolized water until the third day, when the tumefaction be. 
came so great around the orifice that the tube would no 
longer reach the trachea, so the opening was left to itself, 
other than to be cleansed several times a dav with a swab. 
By this time the mare began to show signs of labor pains. 
I had an assistant to draw the swollen tissue together across 
the opening of the trachea so that natural labor pains would 
be more complete. I then removed the foetus, which was 
alive and healthy, and did well. The mother made a com¬ 
plete recovery. Later this same mare had two severe attacks 
