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mare out, saying that if I found her perfectly free from discharge, and with 

 no enlargement of the submaxillary glands, I would not accuse her as the 

 cause of all this mischief. She was precisely in the same state as when I 

 first saw her. The first horse that failed ivas her own patiner^ and the next 

 stood in the same stable. Those about the stables were so much mortified 

 b}^ this discovery, that the mare was immediately afterwards smuggled away ; 

 the infected horses were also removed, or died. Proper precautions were 

 used with respect to the stables, and no further disease appeared." 



A Case somewhat analogous, with a Result altogether 

 DIFFERENT, I shall select out of my own practice, with a view of 

 shewing, by the two being placed in apposition, the risk the vete- 

 rinary practitioner runs of being deceived in any opinion he may 

 inconsiderately or rashly give at the commencement of the malady. 



A grey mare, cutting her four-year-old teeth, w^as brought to the First 

 Life Guards as one of a lot of recruit horses, and was by me examined and 

 passed as sound and fit for the service. The day after she had been exa- 

 mined, the corporal who had charge of her together with the others — an 

 attentive and observant man, and well acquainted with the habits of young 

 horses — reported to me that the grey mare had that morning been discharging 

 blood from her off nostril. I immediately inspected the nostril, and found 

 some few small coagula about the ala, with a streak of blood upon the sep- 

 tum, which had also congealed, there being then no blood actually flowing. 

 The mare was particularly shy about the head, on which account it was 

 thought by the men, and for the moment listened to by me, that she might 

 have struck her nose or head. The third day, in place of blood I found some 

 appearance of matter, very scanty, but of a yellowish tinge, accompanied by 

 an indistinct feel of lumpiness under the throat. I had her removed into a box 

 by herself The fourth day the discharge had augmented, and become muco- 

 purulent, with an admixture of serous liquid, but there was no increase of 

 the submaxillary tumefaction — or what was taken for such — nor were there, 

 nor had there been from the commencement, any signs of indisposition, un- 

 less an occasional cough could be so considered. The mare fed well, was full 

 of spirits, and would hardly suffer any one to approach her : in fact, she was 

 so shy, particularly about her head, that it was deemed inadvisable to attempt 

 to administer any medicine to her ; nor was I desirous that any should be 

 given her, being anxious her ailment should take its natural course. I therefore 

 ordered simply a mash diet and confinement in her box. Two days after- 

 wards the discharge had become considerable ; it had the straw-colour hue, 

 and clung about the long hairs guarding the nostril, befouhng them a good 

 deal, insomuch that those about her called it " a nasty discharge." The man 

 still aftirming that he heard her cough occasionally — though nobody else, it 

 seemed, heard it — I had a stimulating liniment rubbed upon the throttle, but 



