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CROUPAL ANGINA IN THE HORSE. RECOVERY. 
By M. Targue. 
On the 31st of December, 1879, the author of this report 
was called to attend a small horse, a chestnut bay, of a nervous, 
sanguineous temperament. At his first visit he found the animal 
in great suffering, with very difficult respiration, anxious looks, 
widely distended nostrils, and griped countenance; the animal 
roared with difficulty and continuously. Cough frequent, strong 
and repeated. No enlargement of the guttural and parotid 
regions. Sensibility of the larynx extreme, pulse increased, 
mucous membrane highly injected. 
Diagnosis. —Membranous croupal angina. According to the 
history of the case, the animal has been exposed to severe drafts. 
Prognosis. —Serious. 
Treatment. —Though tracheotomy seems indicated, I decided 
to postpone it, and prescribed the following: 
.Removal by bleeding, of 3 pounds of blood; emollient 
fumigations; gargles of alum and chlorate of potass; soothing 
and expectorating electuary, with kermes, gum ammoniac, extracts 
of hyosciamus and belladonna. Externally, mustard applications. 
The next day the animal was much worse; cough more con¬ 
tinual, respiration more difficult, asphyxia threatening. 
After explaining to the owner the danger of his animal, 
tracheotomy was decided upon and performed. As the skin was 
about to be divided, the animal was taken with a sudden cough, 
and threw up, after five or six coughing spells, three false mem* 
branes of a greyish white color, measuring about 15 centimetres 
in length, 2 in width, and two or three millimitres in thickness. 
On examination, some of these proved to be essentially 
formed of a fibrinous net work, somewhat infiltrated with small 
bulbs of air upon one of their faces. Their resistance is quite 
strong. 
As soon as they were expelled, the respiration returned to 
its normal condition, and the recovery seemed to be instanta¬ 
neous .—Annates de Medecine Veterinaire. 
