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scratches about body whieh seem to be healing kmdly; coat looks 

 pretty well; watery discharge from both nasal cavities, but not profuse, 

 from the fact that the owner had probably wiped and washed nose out. 

 Ulcers to be seen on both sides of septum nasi; both submaxillary 

 glands enlarged, the left being the largest, but there are no nodosities 

 visible. Prognosis unfavorable, and no treatment. 



No. 2. Sex and color — Brown, but very much faded; hind pastern 

 white, near fore heel white, the white forming a ring around entire coro- 

 net, blaze on face a little inclined to left side. Age and disease — About 

 seven years old; glanders. History — This mare was received in ex- 

 change for another horse and a quantity of hay from A. E. Austin, livery- 

 man of Meriden, who claims to have brought the horse from Vermont. 

 This mare is rather thin in flesh, much faded in color, and has had two 

 or three hemorrhages from right nostril since Mr. Merwin bought her. 

 At the last attack they thought she would bleed to death. They called 

 in the village physician, v/ho injected a solution of Tincture Ferri Per- 

 chloride into nasal cavities, also a hypodermic injection of Ergotine. 



Symptoms — 21st July. Discharge from nose, slight enlargement 

 of submaxillary glands, an ulcer in left nasal cavity on lower part of 

 septum nasi. 



August 4th. Pulse 44; respiration 24; temperature 100f°F.; watery 

 discharge from nose; slight enlargement of submaxillary glands and 

 adhered together; in left nasal cavity there are two ulcers on septum 

 nasi near lower extremity ; anterior portion of lungs probably more or 

 less affected ; some cough on compressing trachea, but no nodosities 

 visible. Prognosis — Unfavorable, and no treatment. 



P. S. — These examinations were made at owner's farm, one July 21st, 

 the other Aug. 4th. Mr. Merwin has owned these horses about three 

 months, and he is very careful to wash out nose before any one examines 

 them, and they being at grass would have a tendency to keep nose clean. 

 But from what I can ascertain there is a muco-purulent discharge. 



Yours, etc., Geo. H. Parkinson. 



EEPORT OF DR. W. J. O'SULLIVAN, Received Aug. 7, 1880. 



At the request of the Commissioners, Messrs. Hyde and Stewart, I ex- 

 amined, July 23d, two mares, said to be the property of H. S. Merwin. 



Mare No. 1. The first examined being a dark brown mare, white star 

 in forehead and white hiqd fetlock; this, mare exhibited two ulcers on 

 schneiderian mucous membrane (the mucous membrane lining nostrils), 

 and the characteristic muco-purulent discharge, etc., of glanders. 



The second mare was a light brown mare; the appearances in this 

 mare were not sufficiently developed to warrant a decided opinion, but 

 were sufficient to demand close quarantine. 



W. J. O'SULLIVAN, M. R. C. V. S. 



