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lodged in them, and the noise he makes in drawing his breath hard 

 through these accumulations is very distressful to a by-stander ; at 

 the same time there is something in the sound, as I stated before, 

 so peculiar to the ear of the experienced veterinarian, that the 

 moment he hears it, before even the patient's stable-door be opened, 

 he recognizes it as the nasal rale of a glandered horse. 



INOCULATED GLANDERS, I repeat, may be regarded as a 

 genuine specimen of the acute variety. The common course it 

 takes, already described after inoculation within the nose, is in the 

 following case shewn modified by inoculation in other parts: — 



May 3d, 1828. — An ass was inoculated in both upper eyelids, both sides 

 of the loins, the off side of withers, and on the inside of the ala of each 

 nostril, with the discharge from the off nostril of a grey gelding, purchased by 



Sir P D three years previous, who was affected with this same 



glanderous discharge at the time of purchase, and which had continued ever 

 since. 



7th. — All the wounds suppurating, except those on the nostrils, which ap- 

 pear to be healing. 



9th. — Absorbents inflamed from the ulcers on eyelids and back. 



14:th. — Absorbents much thickened, having diffused inflammation about 

 them, and at different parts of their course circumscribed tumours suppurating ; 

 the inflammation from the ulcers of the loins proceeding to the groin, that 

 from the off side of withers to the breast, and, on the eyelids, producing 

 small fluctuating tumours on the jugular vein, just below the ear : the alae 

 nasi were beginning to swell, and there was a snuffling in breathing, &c. 



19th. — The alae nasi much thickened, copious discharge from nostrils, and 

 the swelling increasing. 



22d. — Respiration greatly embarrassed. He died on the following day. 



Examination. — Much frothy spume in trachea — general infiltration of lungs, 

 which were inflamed — considerable consolidation of the anterior and inferior 

 portion of right lobe — warty exulceration of Schneiderian membrane of both 

 nostrils to a greater extent than I had ever witnessed before*. 



TYPHOID GLANDERS, as the continental veterinary sur- 

 geons have named the worst or most malignant form of the acute, 

 is that variety in which deep and extensive sloughing is going on 

 in the cartilage of the nose and turbinated bones, occasioning dark 

 coloured, in some instances black discharges, at times mingled 

 with blood, having a most disgustingly foetid odour, with the lungs 



* From the Posthumous Cases of the late Mr. John Field. 

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