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the good and laudable (late of the vifcera, tlie 

 fwelling and ulcers of the pituitary membrane, 

 and the cornets, (or thin cartilaginous fub- 

 ftances in fhape of horns^ in each noftril) and 

 the matter which fills the finufes ; we may rea- 

 fonably conclude, the glanders is a local and 

 inflammatory difeafe, and that the feat of it is 

 in the pituitary membrane." " A horfe for 

 eighteen months, difcharged a thick white hu- 

 mour in abundance from his noftrils. At red 

 in the ftable the running ceafed, and was ex- 

 changed for a rattling noife in his breathing 

 which noife ceafed in turn, on the horfe beino; 

 worked, when the running again fucceeded ; 

 whence inferred the horfe not glandered. Being 

 killed, the pituitary membrane was found per- 

 fectly found, and all the interior parts of the 

 nofe in a good flate, without any unnatural 

 contents in the finufes. The lower vifcera 

 found, but a large abfcefs at the entry of the 

 lungs, in the place where the trachea arteria, 

 or windpipe, divides itfelf into branches." 

 " Horfes cannot cough up corruption from the 

 lungs by the mouth, as mankind do; therefore 

 fuch matter runs off by the noflrils. If one 

 noftril only run, we may be pretty fure the 

 difeafe is not in the lungs, but the head ; be- 

 caufe the matter that comes up the windpipe 

 from the lungs has an equal chance of entering 

 both noflrils." ** A horfe may live, and do 



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