28 DISEASES OF THE AIR-PASSAGES. 



wliich Mi\ Proctor received from "good authority/^ would lead 

 us to believe so : — " Two sturks were found dead in a field, or 

 nearly so, with affections of their throats. The butcher was 

 sent for to dress their carcases. His own horse partook of 

 some grains mixed with some of the blood taken from the 

 beasts; and in less than twenty-four hours afterwards he 

 died from swelling of the throat, producing suffocation. A 

 sow and nine pigs ate of the blood and grains, and were 

 soon afterwards seized with throat affection, with sonorous 

 breathing, of which all of them died. The others, after 

 much trouble, eventually recovered. ^^' 



Treatment. — Fomentations and poultices of an antiseptic 

 nature would be most proper, with tonics and good living. 

 Tracheotomy might become necessary. Isolation and careful 

 management are peremptorily called for. 



NASAL GLEET. 



Nasal gleet is the name here given to those dis- 

 charges from the nose which are commonly preceded by some 

 inflammatory or catarrhal attack of the air-passages, in par- 

 ticular those of the head ; though there occur examples of 

 their appearing without any such detectible precursor, origi- 

 nating, indeed, without any visible or apparent cause whatever: 

 in most cases they are apt to continue long after all signs of 

 inflammation have died away. Gleet is more likely to super- 

 vene after a chronic than an acute attack of catarrh, and to 

 shew itself in an adult or aged horse rather than in the young 

 subject. Sometimes the discharge comes from one nostril 

 alone, more usually from both. Sometimes the submaxillary 

 glands remain tumefied ; sometimes they are not. The 

 Schneiderian membrane, discoloured by inflammatory action, 

 has become pallid and leaden-hued, but is free from all pus- 

 tular or ulcerative indications. The discharged matters vary 



' Also the son of the butcher, who assisted his father in the dressing, 

 happening to have a scar on one of his fingers, fell ill afterwards with painful 

 swellings on his hand and face, and was confined for some time from it. — 

 ' J 'elevinarian, vol, xxiii, p. 572. 



