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IRREGULAR STRANGLES. 
By E. F. Thayer, V.S. 
On the 10tli of August, I was called to attend an abscess in 
the intermaxillary space of a colt, the property of the estate of the 
late Benj. E. Bates. The foreman in charge stated that he had 
opened three, but as this was in the neighborhood of the large 
blood vessels, he did not dare to. The colt was thin in flesh, but 
had a good appetite. 1 advised a liberal quantity of food, and 
stated that it was a case of irregular strangles, and that there was 
danger of internal abscess, which, if occurring, would cause a 
fatal result. 
On the 26th, I was called in haste, as the colt was breathing 
very short. On examination, I found dullness in percussion on 
both sides; evidently effusion had taken place. Prognosis— 
death; which occurred on the next day. Autopsy—On removing 
the walls of the thorax, there was seen sixty-eight quarts of se¬ 
rum, with a large amount of effused lymph. The lungs ad¬ 
hered to the walls and to the diaphragm. In separating the 
lungs from the diaphragm, an abscess opened which contained 
eight, or ten ounces of clear, white pus. In connection with the 
pleura, in the anterior part of the thorax, were four other ab¬ 
scesses, containing several ounces each of pus, of the same char¬ 
ter as the one first mentioned. 
HOME EXCHANGES. 
American Agriculturist, New York; National Live Stock 
Journal, Illinois; New York Rural, New York; Turf, Field and 
Farm, New York; Hospital Gazette, New York; Medical Rec¬ 
ord, New York; Maine Farmer, Maine; Ohio Farmer, Ohio; 
Scientific Farmer, Massachusetts; Scientific American, New 
York; Prairie Farmer, Pennsylvania, 
