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in quantity and quality in different individuals^ and even in 

 the same horse at different stages of the disease. The ordi- 

 nary gleet consists of a matter more mucous than purulent, 

 remarkable for its whiteness, about the thickness of cream, 

 and in some cases is smooth and uniform, in others clotty or 

 lumpy : in other cases it is yellow, and appears to contain 

 in its composition more pus than mucus. At one time it 

 will collect about the nostrils, and become ejected in flakes 

 or masses, in pretty regular succession ; at another, there 

 is a good deal of irregularity in this respect, the running 

 from the nose ceasing altogether for a while, as though 

 the animal were cured, and then returning in double and 

 treble force. Sometimes fetor is an offensive accompaniment 

 of the discharge; at other times no fetor is perceptible. The 

 health does not suffer in the least ; on the contrary, it is one 

 of the indications of this disease that the horse eats and drinks 

 and has his spirits, as well as though he were quite free from 

 complaint. 



Pathology. — Formerly, these cases were regarded to be 

 glanders : they were called chronic glanders , and many a horse 

 has been destroyed under this false impression. That a case 

 of the kind might not turn to glanders is more than I can 

 pretend to say ; but that, so long as it continues gleet, it is 

 not glanders, I am fully persuaded ; and to show that it is 

 not, I have been in more than one instance successful in 

 bringing the case to a favorable issue. 



The treatment of nasal gleet may be at first simply medi- 

 cinal : this failing, however, an operation becomes our only 

 resource. A rowel inserted under the jaw is a simple and 

 sometimes efficacious remedy in recent gleet ; though it seldom 

 avails much when the disorder has been of any standing. Blis- 

 ters and setons do no good, unless there be some glandular 

 swelling: then, that may be blistered, though without any 

 great prospect of stopping the discharge, on the irritation of 

 which it probably depends for its existence. Injections of va- 

 rious kinds up the nose or affected nostril are to be employed; 

 though their success must depend upon the duration and 

 nature of the complaint ; for if it be of long standing, and 



