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found the mucous membrane very much inflamed and ulcerated about the 

 extremity. There wa3 no cold or previous discharge from the nostrils*." 



Injuries about the head, from blows or falls, have on many 

 occasions given rise to symptoms that might, in ignorance of the 

 lesion itself, be mistaken for those of glanders. 



A valuable chestnut hunter was sent to Mr. Jos. Sewell for his 

 opinion, supposed to be glandered, from his having had for six 

 weeks a considerable discharge from his off nostril, with enlarge- 

 ment of the submaxillary gland. On examination, Mr. S. dis- 

 covered his patient had received a contusion upon the off frontal 

 bone, and this induced him to propose trephining him. This led to 

 the discovery (as was supposed) of a fracture, and to the exposure of 

 a splinter of bone suspended from the membrane lining the frontal 

 sinus. The wound after being closed was syringed with astringent 

 lotions; and in five weeks afterwards the patient had recovered, 

 very little blemished. — Veterinarian for 1840. 



Carious teeth and disease of the maxillary bones and of the 

 sinuses have generated a similar set of delusory symptoms! . 



It is surprising what trifling and strange causes may now and 

 then be assumed to be influential in attacks of glanders or farcy. 

 In the case following, simply a dose of cathartic medicine appears 

 to have done the mischief: — 



" February 2d, 1806, a dose of physic was administered to a young horse 

 (belonging to the Second Dragoon Guards, Mr. Smith being their Veterinary 

 Surgeon), which was taken the following day from Birmingham to Coventry, 

 the troop to which he belonged having marched there. The unfortunate 

 animal was led eighteen miles under a violent purgation, exposed all the 

 while to an intense frosty wind. He became instantly glandered from ear to 

 lip. The skin on that side of the head most- exposed to the wind appeared 

 as though a mild blister had been applied to it§. 



In another instance castration — in general a simple and safe 

 operation in the young horse — was followed by farcy and glanders; 

 and the owner of the colt refused, in consequence, to pay my 

 father — who was the operator — his charge for the operation |. 



* Smith's Horse Owner's Guide. 



I Turn to pages 176-180 of the present volume. 



§ Op. cit. 



I The case will be found in the second vol. of the present work, p. 427. 



