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convinced that my seton was of no benefit, and I left word to have it 
removed, which I was told was done. 
This closes the first part of the case. 
People sometimes are suddenly struck by peculiar events, which take 
such a powerful hold on their minds that at all risks they are bound to 
follow them to the end ; and such was it with me in that case. Why 
should the operation, which I knew was performed as it ought to have 
been, proved to be a failure ? was a question that I could not answer. 
I, from time to time, visited the mare; the wounds of her throat 
healed, but the swelling increased, and with vague hope to bring the 
suppuration to the surface, embrocations of populeum and basilicum 
ointments were made over the parts, warm fomentations and flaxseed 
meal poultices being applied. Three or four abscesses formed them¬ 
selves were opened, but no change in the throat—always the same ap¬ 
pearance of the swelling, the same feeling, the same noise of the con¬ 
tained fluid striking against the hand when pushed to and fro from side 
to side—always, in other words, the symptoms of suppurative collections 
of the guttural pouches. Some time afterwards a large abscess developed 
itself in the middle of the inferior cervical region; when ready to open, 
I think about two .gallons of suppuration was allowed to escape. Anti¬ 
septic treatment and stimulants had been freely used; our patient 
bore it all well; her condition was good, but no change in her throat. 
One day she was driven, but roared so much that it was found impos¬ 
sible to give her even the slightest exercise. 
During that time, though the pouch had filled, the abscesses had 
closed, the thickening of the parotid had disappeared, and it was easily 
perceived that but little trouble could be experienced in making a coun¬ 
ter opening below the lower end of the parotid, and I thought a success 
in the treatment. 
On application to the President of the Road, he consented to have 
her removed to the Am. Vet. College, and on the 24th of May, two 
months after the first failure , she was operated, by a longitudinal inci¬ 
sion a little above the course of the jugular made through the skin, by 
a division of the sub-cutaneous fascia and of the levator humeri, a dis¬ 
section and isolation of the blood vessels and nerves, they being pulled 
forward by the flat depressor, the cellular tissues over the pouches being 
divided, and an incision about 2^ to 3 inches being made in the pouches. 
While lying down no liquid escaped, but in the decumbent position it 
was plainly seen at the bottom. As soon as the mare was up a large 
mass of bloody suppuration, quite thin and sanious escaped, with such 
