GUTTUROMYCOSIS OF SOLIPEDES.
Aspergillus. Complications, ulceration, lesions of adjoining parts, food in lungs, hepatization, gangrene. Treatment, by incision, sulphur dioxide, iodine.
Rivolta and Bassi have found in the guttural pouches of horses and a mule, an advancing ulceration of the mucosa partially covered with crusts composed largely of the mycelium, conidia and spores of Aspergillus or a closely allied fungus. In the mule the ulcer had opened into the carotid artery causing a profuse epistaxis. In the three horses there was dysphagia, and the food, descending to the lungs, had caused pulmonary hepatization and gangrene. The description of the ulcers led Raillet to infer the existence of glanders and that the presence of the aspergillus was accidental, rather than a causative factor. In parallel cases the opening of the guttural pouch and injection with sulphurous acid solution or dilute solution of iodine would be appropriate treatment.