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An Interesting Case of Asphyxia in a Foal
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difficulty in swallowing and occasionally salivating from the mouth. When I saw the patient some two months ago, I noticed the following symptoms :-Emaciation, loss of appetite, salivation, and general malaise and prostra tion . Thinking that I had an ulcerated condition of the throat to deal with, I prescribed a gargle composed of chlorate of potash and water; and, as I did not hear further from the o wner, I concluded that the animal had probably recovered. On May 15 I was again called in, a nd upon examination of the back of the throat observed a granulous excrescence, about half the size of the kernel of a hazelnut, on either side of the back of the tong ue, almost occluding the orifice of the larynx. The animal almost choked when I was examining the throat; and thinking the case hopeless, I advised the owner to have th e patient destroyed. The specimen was sent to Sir John McFadyean, who proclaimed the growt hs to be papilloma s.
AN I NTERESTING CAS E OF ASP H YX I A I N A FOAL. BY F. H. Rll)LER, M.R .C. V.S. , KENSINGTON, W. O N June 9, whilst away in the country, I wa s asked to look at a foal which had been taken suddenly ill. The animal was only eleven days old, a nd appea red to be suffering from ac ute laryngitis. I prescribed the usual remedies, a nd had the nostrils well steamed with hot inhalations. This gave temporary relief for a few hours; but well-marked symptoms of asphyxia again appea red, so much so that I was compelled to open the trachea. On passing my fingers throug h the opening into the windpipe, I distinctly felt a numbe r of fibrous bands stretching across it; these I broke down, a nd a quantity of pus made its escape externally. The operation gave instant relief, and the progress afterwards, althoug h slow, has been practically uneventful. The case is, I think, noteworthy, on account of the age of the patient and the rapidity with which the abscess formed, as the foal was apparently well two days previously.
A N OSTEOMA IN A PECULI A R SIT UATION. J:V
J.
L. PER RY, M.R. C.V.S., CARDIFF.
TH E pa tient, an aged roan mare pony, had an unsightly enlargement on the inner side of the upper third of the off hock. It was hard and slightly moveable, and did not cause lameness, having taken ~bo.ut twelve months to attain its present size. It wa s cone-shaped, wIth Its flat end opposed to the surface of the hock, and it had a soft spot in ~he centre, from which, when explored with a trocar, a quantity of dark thick blood ex uded . An operation was advised, and the tumour was excised under chloroform, great care being taken to avoid the under parts.
The Veten·1la1JI '.Journal.
difficulty in swallowing and occasionally salivating from the mouth. When I saw the patient some two months ago, I noticed the following symptoms :-Emaciation, loss of appetite, salivation, and general malaise and prostra tion . Thinking that I had an ulcerated condition of the throat to deal with, I prescribed a gargle composed of chlorate of potash and water; and, as I did not hear further from the o wner, I concluded that the animal had probably recovered. On May 15 I was again called in, a nd upon examination of the back of the throat observed a granulous excrescence, about half the size of the kernel of a hazelnut, on either side of the back of the tong ue, almost occluding the orifice of the larynx. The animal almost choked when I was examining the throat; and thinking the case hopeless, I advised the owner to have th e patient destroyed. The specimen was sent to Sir John McFadyean, who proclaimed the growt hs to be papilloma s.
AN I NTERESTING CAS E OF ASP H YX I A I N A FOAL. BY F. H. Rll)LER, M.R .C. V.S. , KENSINGTON, W. O N June 9, whilst away in the country, I wa s asked to look at a foal which had been taken suddenly ill. The animal was only eleven days old, a nd appea red to be suffering from ac ute laryngitis. I prescribed the usual remedies, a nd had the nostrils well steamed with hot inhalations. This gave temporary relief for a few hours; but well-marked symptoms of asphyxia again appea red, so much so that I was compelled to open the trachea. On passing my fingers throug h the opening into the windpipe, I distinctly felt a numbe r of fibrous bands stretching across it; these I broke down, a nd a quantity of pus made its escape externally. The operation gave instant relief, and the progress afterwards, althoug h slow, has been practically uneventful. The case is, I think, noteworthy, on account of the age of the patient and the rapidity with which the abscess formed, as the foal was apparently well two days previously.
A N OSTEOMA IN A PECULI A R SIT UATION. J:V
J.
L. PER RY, M.R. C.V.S., CARDIFF.
TH E pa tient, an aged roan mare pony, had an unsightly enlargement on the inner side of the upper third of the off hock. It was hard and slightly moveable, and did not cause lameness, having taken ~bo.ut twelve months to attain its present size. It wa s cone-shaped, wIth Its flat end opposed to the surface of the hock, and it had a soft spot in ~he centre, from which, when explored with a trocar, a quantity of dark thick blood ex uded . An operation was advised, and the tumour was excised under chloroform, great care being taken to avoid the under parts.