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of the maxillary finns being broke by the 

 kick of another horfe, the ufual fymptoms 

 of the glanders foon appeared, from the 

 inflammation the pituitary membrane 

 fuffered on the occafion. 



The orio-inal fource and caufe then of The true 

 this diforder, feems to be an inflamma- "ufe and 

 tion of the glands, and membrane that ^^^^°^^^® 

 lines the noftrils and thefe cavities -5 which, ^ 

 if not difperfed in time, will form mat- 

 ter, and ulcerate and erode the bones, 

 for want of a free difcharge to unload 

 the cavities, and of proper applications 

 to cleanle and deterge the ulcers : vio- 

 lent colds, or a feverifh tranflation, fet- 

 ting here may alfo occafion the fame 

 complaint, and are probably the general 

 caufes. 



There Is a diforder in men, called An ana- 

 Dzena, that has great fimilitude to this logy be- 

 in horfes, and arifes often from an in- ^^^^^ ^^^ 

 flammation in the maxillary ftnuffes. or ? j" ^^^* 

 cavicies in the cheek-bones, from whence tergather- 

 enfues a colledion of matter; which ed in the 

 when the cavity is full, or the head pro- cheek- 

 perly inclined, runs over into tha nofe, °^"^°' 

 and would conftantly difcharge thence 

 like a glandered horfe, was the head 

 i:ontinued in the fanie pofition. The 



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