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be used with one end inserted in the opening made 

 by the trephine and the other containing a funnel 

 into which a constant stream of water can be poured, 

 or the tube may have one end attached to a pail 

 which is suspended over the head. The dressings 

 should be repeated once each day until the cavity 

 closes, care being taken not to injure the mucous 

 membrane of the sinus. 



The following cases show the necessity of making 

 a careful examination before ordering the destruc- 

 tion of a horse because he is supposed to suffer from 

 glanders. 



*"There are instances on record of carious teeth 

 being discovered and of their being productive of 

 such consequences as have led, through error, to fatal 

 termination. The following relation ought to oper- 

 ate on our minds as a warning in pronouncing judg- 

 ment in cases of glanders, or at least in such as 

 assume the semblance of glanders. 



A horse the property of the Government became 

 a patient of Mr. Cherry's on account of a copious de- 

 fluxion of fetid discolored purulent matter from the 

 near nostril, unaccompanied either by submaxillary 

 tumefaction or by ulceration of the Schneiderian 

 membrane. For two or three months the case was 

 treated for glanders, but no amendment appearing a 

 consultation was deemed necessary, the result of 

 which was the horse was shot. 



*Percival, Hippopathology, Vol. II, Part II, Page 297. 



