3'i8 ON GLANDERS. 



the holes of the bone, called ethinoides, or cyIt 

 ' biforme, from its refemblance to a fieve. " In 

 proportion as the fubHngual glands, which are 

 two in number, fituate one on each fide between 

 the lower jaw, are fwelled^itrore (that is ob- 

 ftruBed) the nofe would run more ; if one only 

 were fwelled, then the nodril on the fame fide 

 only would run." " The feat of the glanders is 

 in the memhrana fituitaria, or lining- of the 

 noftrils ; beft method of cure by injeftion." 

 *•' Nineteen out of twenty glandered horfes 

 which were killed, had their vifcera found, or 

 very litde diftempered." " When the difcharge 

 is inclinable to a brownifh hue, vv^ith blood, &c, 

 the covering of the capillary veflels (in the 

 lining of the noftrils) is abraded and worn off 

 by the (liarpnefs of the humour, and blood 

 makes its efcape at the extremities of the rami- 

 hcations or branchings ofthe veins and arteries." 

 •'* The fublingual glands, or glands under the 

 tongue, in horfes, dD not difcharge from their 

 canals into the mouth, as in man, but on the 

 contrary, turn backwards, and pafs behind the 

 holes ofthe noftrils; thefe glands are anterior 

 to the maxillary glands, which latter fupply the 

 mouth with all the faliva ; for this reafon, in 

 the glanders, we find obftru6l;ion and tume- 

 faclion of the former, whilft the latter , glands 

 remain found." " From the appearance of 

 health, the durablenefs of fome glandered horfes, 



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