232 CAUSES or glanders. 



Qth. — A yellow-greenish muco-purulent discharge from the off nostril. 



7th. — The submaxillary glands tumefied, and a cord of tumid absorbents, 

 altogether as large as my wrist, proceeding from the swollen glands along the 

 hollow of the jaw to the symphysis. 



loth. — Two circular ulcers with elevated margins and surfaces covered with 

 incrustations appeared upon the septum nasi. 



V2th. — Ulcers spreading — the discharge, still muco-purulent, has lost its 

 greenish tinge. 



\6th. — One ulcer is half an inch in breadth. 



\Qtli. — Now so decidedly glandered, and farcied as well, that I have re- 

 commended he be shot. 



March 23c/, 1833, the same day the colonel's charger fell sick, 



A 24, BLACK TROOP-HORSE was brought to me for being "off his feed." 

 He was in good — fat — condition ; but was not looking healthy in his coat. 

 I ordered him a soft diet, and gave him some opening medicine ; after which 

 he appeared to amend. 



On the 1st of April, however, he was again brought to me for a 'blotch' 

 on the outer side of one of his arms, which was surrounded by a circumscribed 

 swelling. At first it appeared to me like the effect of a blow ; and I ac- 

 cordingly ordered fomentation and physic. 



The physic worked briskly ; the swelling subsided ; and the appetite be- 

 came restored : but a sore remained, half as large as a sixpence and of a 

 circular figure, with a j'ellow base. 



April 7th. — Another blotch has appeared at the place where he was bled 

 from the plat vein. I begin to suspect farcy. His coat lacks brightness, and 

 his pulse is increased. 



loth. — My suspicions have become confirmed. Cords of absorbents are now 

 running from the last ulcer upwards to the cariniform process of the sternum, 

 altogether about a foot in length. 



l6th. — What has been done — Blood-letting and purgation and diuretic 

 medicine have made no alteration in the tumefied absorbents. His general 

 health is not so good as it was. 



SOth. — Since the date of the last report, strong mercurial ointment has been 



rubbed into the corded absorbents, and calomel given ; but with no good 



result. 



May 2(1. — His appetite fails him ; pulse 60, and stronger and fuller than it 



has been. Keeps up his flesh pretty well ; though his coat seems permanently 



to have lost its gloss and does not shed kindly, as it ought now to do. 



loth. — The tumefied lymphatics have increased in size and are distinctly 



knotted ; but as yet no abscess has broken. But the submaxillary glands of 



the right side have suddenly swollen to the size of an egg : though the swelling 



has a lobulous loose feel, and gives pain when squeezed. 



