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again brought to the infirmary, breathing hoarse and loud, with 
an abundance of saliva from her mouth. I applied the same solu¬ 
tion to her throat, with a little sponge on the end of a flexible 
rod, and gave the same treatment as I had done before, so that by 
the first of October she was again convalescent and ready to go 
home, but considerably reduced in flesh, though feeling in good 
spirits. On the 7th of October she had another slight attack in 
the throat and limbs, but nothing like the former attacks. The 
doctor and Mr. Koch had a controversy about the mare, and I 
bought her. At the change of the weather she gets slight attacks 
in her throat, which will last from three to four days, when she 
will feel as well as usual. On the 1st of November I commenced 
giving her 3 ss doses of iodide potassa, with liq. arseni. potassa 3 i, 
in her feed. 
She kept on improving, so that by the 20 th of November I 
commenced driving her, and have driven her up to the time of 
writing this article, December 10 th, without observing the least 
symptoms of rheumatism. 
What appears remarkable to me in this case is that the dis¬ 
ease always commenced in her throat, and on its disappear¬ 
ing from the throat the limbs would begin to swell. It always 
made its appearance in the throat twenty-four hours before any 
swelling could be detected at her joints. There was at no time 
any swelling of the throat or any of the glands of that region. 
As I have never read or heard of rheumatism in the throat, I will 
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leave it to you whether m 3 7 diagnosis of the throat is correct. 
HAIRY TUMORS OF THE WITHERS. 
By J. S. Cattanacjh, V.S. 
On the 21st of last September I was called upon by Mr. D. 
Mace, of this city, to see a horse that had an enlargement on his 
off shoulder. It was situated about twelve inches down from the 
withers, near the posterior border of the scapula, and on a hori¬ 
zontal line with the tuberosity of the accromion spine, was four 
inches in length, and of a pear-shape, the broadest part being at 
the base. On manipulation, it seemed a hard substance sur- 
