REPORTS OF CASES. 
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REPORTS OF CASES, 
“ Careful observation makes a skillful practitioner , but his skill dies with him. By 
recording his observations he adds to the knowledge of his profession , and as¬ 
sists by his facts in building up the solid edifice of pathological science .” —Vet¬ 
erinary Record. 
JABOT—CONSTRICTION OF THE (ESOPHAGUS. 
By J. P. Klenoh, V.S 
In the February number of The American Veterinary 
Review, Dr. R. R. Morrison published a very interesting 
article on the obstruction of the oesophagus. As a proper 
addenda to that article, I will report two similar cases of my 
personal observation for the purpose of bringing more light 
on the subject. 
Several years ago I attended a two-year-old colt that was 
fed on straw, choking and unable to swallow for three or four 
days. I found the oesophagus dilated from the pharynx 
down its course for ten or twelve inches. The colt was every 
few seconds suffering from convulsive coughing, shaking its 
head violently as if suffering from strangulation. At the lower 
end of that pouch I could clearly notice the oesophagus to 
be firmly contracted; mouth and nostrils were soiled with 
masticated straw and saliva. While the colt held the head 
low, 1 passed the contents of that pocket gently with both 
hands towards the pharynx, and the animal would eject them 
through mouth and nostrils. Thus I succeeded in emptying 
several times that artificial jabot and caused the colt to swal¬ 
low water and a little bran mash, which fact convinced me 
that there was no total obstruction of the cesophagion canal. 
But after an interval of a few minutes, the pocket would fill 
again up to the pharynx and the same paroxysms of convulsive 
coughing and strangling returned. That colt died. 
On October 26th last, I was called at three o’clock A.M. 
to visit a colt, two years old, belonging to Messrs. Alexander 
Bros, near Santa Rosa, California. 
History. — Three weeks before my visit they noticed this 
colt having, while running in an alfalfa pasture, a big lump on 
the neck, near the breast. This lump went away, came back, 
and disappeared again, without ever having, to their knowl¬ 
edge, caused the colt any visible trouble. They took the colt 
