NASAL POLYPUS. 67 



there being no veterinary surgeons then in the Frencli 

 service, — and was treated accordingly. After a time, to 

 the confusion and astonishment of the man, a fleshy sub- 

 stance began to appear in the nostril, and which rapidly 

 increased in size. At length a great mass protruded, and 

 the farrier cut it off". No benefit followed ; the nostril was 

 still stopped, the breathing laborious, and the horse daily 

 became thinner and weaker. After the lapse of a twelve- 

 month the case attracted the attention of M. Tears, the 

 surgeon of the regiment. He cast the horse, slit up the 

 nostril, when he not only found it completely filled with 

 polypus, and the septum narium bulging into the other 

 division of the cavity; but, from long-continued inflam- 

 mation and pressure, it had adhered to the membrane of the 

 nose in so many points, and so extensively, that it was 

 impossible to get round it, to move it. He contrived, at 

 length, to pass a crucial bandage around it, and it was torn 

 out by main force. Four considerable portions of the 

 turbinated bones were brought away with it. The hemor- 

 rhage was excessive : he however filled the nostril completely 

 with tow, and brought the divided edges of the false nostril 

 together by sutures. In three days they were all torn out 

 by the incessant attempts of the animal to get rid of the 

 obstruction; but the horse eventually did well. The poly- 

 pus weighed two pounds seven ounces. 



Chabert, in a case which he had himself, of a very large 

 polypus, was obliged to make a hole in the frontal bone, 

 which he contrived to cover afterwards with a leathern 

 shield, attached to the front of both bridle and head-collar. 

 For a long while after recovery the horse ran in a cab. 



E-iGOT relates a case in which the tumour remained 

 stationary at flrst for a long time, and then suddenly took 

 to growing. At last it became such a size that it occupied 

 the whole cavity, pushing the septum into the other nostril, 

 displacing the bones, and threatening suff'ocation. The 

 nostril was slit up ; the pedicle cut asunder close to the 

 bone; and the cautery applied to arrest the hemorrhage, 

 and prevent the reproduction of the tumour. 



