THE HORSE. Igg 



In proof of which he gives the following cases from the records 

 of the Munich school : 



1. A horse was brought in with a tumefied condition of the right 

 hind-leg. The animal had a slight mucous flow from the nose, oc- 

 casionally coughed, and had some fever. The leg continued to 

 swell, the fever augmented, and the animal was killed, being con- 

 sidered incurable. 



Autopsy. — Subacute glanders of the larynx, the trachea, and 

 lungs. Nasal cavities completely normal. 



2. A nine-year-old horse, in a fair condition, was taken into the 

 clinic with the appearance of severe dyspnoea. Nasal outflow from 

 both sides, considerable fever, accelerated pulse and respiration, a 

 weak, painful cough. The diagnosis was acute oedema glottidis, or 

 muscle paresis in larynx. Tracheotomy. After eight days the 

 horse was killed. 



Autopsy. — Chronic and subacute glanders of the larynx ; acute 

 glanders of the nose, the trachea, and lungs. 



Upon the septum of the right nostril was to be seen a fresh 

 ulcer, and in its neighborhood, as well as higher up, several smaller 

 ones. Retropharyngeal and laryngeal glands acutely swollen. Ex- 

 treme oedema glottidis. The inner surface of the larynx showed a 

 diffuse ulceration, partly covered with fresh granulations. Isolated 

 nodes in the lungs. 



3. Autopsy. — Chronic glanders of the larynx and lungs, with 

 acute nasal glanders, and swelling of the glands. 



Pathological Anatomy. 



Glanders is essentially characterized by neoplasmatic processes, 

 which are represented by tubercles, nodes, the diffuse infiltrations 

 known as glanders-growths, and by pneumonic conditions, which in 

 general come under the head of dry catarrhal, also by complica- 

 tions of the stroma of the large glandular organs, and in very 

 chronic cases by thrombosis of the pulmonary veins, and the forma- 

 tion of gelatinous infiltrations of varied extent in the lungs. 



The unknown inficiens of glanders undoubtedly has a specific 

 tendency to act upon, irritate, or excite into a state of proliferating 

 activity the interstitial tissues, which compose the stroma or frame- 

 work of the organs. 



The works on veterinary pathology absolutely fail, either in no- 

 ticing this fact, or calling sufficient attention to it. 



I can not at this moment recall a single paper upon the 

 " shrunken kidney " of chronic glanders, which is a very common 



