_Treatment._ First remove or correct the existing cause of the disease. Impaction may be broken up by the use of the wire loop, or pincer probang; parasites may be expelled by passing a cupped probang; the impactions following arytenectomy can be obviated by feeding gruels, milk and other liquid foods only, and from a bucket set on the ground; stricture may be dilated by the use of graduated sounds; and nervous diseases may be dealt with according to their specific nature in each several case. When any definite cause of this kind has been overcome the persistent use of strychnia, subcutem, or by the mouth, may be effectual in overcoming the paresis of the gullet. Hypodermic injections are best made along the left jugular groove, and frictions, stimulating embrocations, and galvanic currents may be employed with excellent effect. ŒSOPHAGEAN TUMORS. Forms of neoplasm in gullet of horse, ox, sheep, pig, dog. Symptoms: dysphagia; eructation; vomiting; bloating; cough; dyspnœa; stertor; fœtor; palpitation. Treatment. These have been often noticed in the lower animals. In the _horse_ have been noticed _melanoma_ (Olivier, Röll, Kopp, Besnard, Pouleau), _fibroma_ (Dandrieu, Dieckerhoff), Carcinoma (Chouard, Lorenz, Cadeac, Laurent), epithelioma (Blanc, Lorenz), Leiomyoma (Lucet, Lothes), cystoma (Caillau, Legrand), mucous cysts (Lucet). In =cattle papilloma= is especially common, having been noted by _Johne_, Mons, Fessler, Schütz, Lusckar, Gratia, Beck, Cadeac and Kitt. =Tubercles=, and =fibroid masses= with cystic purulent centres are not uncommon. =Actinomycosis= is also frequent, sometimes hard and warty and at others soft and vascular. In the =Sheep=, Dandrieu found between the muscular and mucous coats a hard tumor as large as a hen’s egg, the removal of which put a stop to a persistent choking. In both =cattle= and =sheep=, swellings from =coccidiosis= are common; in =cattle= and =swine= from =gongylonema=, and in =sheep= from =filaria= (Harms) or =spiroptera= (Zurn). In =pigs=, =fibroma= is met with in the walls of the gullet (Raveski) and in =dogs= =fibroma=, =papilloma=, and the tumors of spiroptera. _Symptoms._ The coccidia and spiroptera usually cause few symptoms or none, but neoplasms usually develop symptoms of obstruction, dysphagia, eructation, vomiting, and all the indications of choking according to their seat. These do not come on suddenly and recover as in simple choking, but even though there may be periodic obstructions, spasms and paroxysms, there is a slow, progressive advance as the neoplasms increase. Stertorous or mucous breathing, cough, dyspnœa and fœtid exhalations are common, the symptoms may be aggravated when the head is bent, and the tumor may even be felt on palpation of the throat or left jugular furrow. In ruminants tympany occurs after feeding.