1M DADDS VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGERY. 



gwen at by practitioners because they had chronic discharge and 

 swollen glands j and in ten days or a fortnight all the animals 

 have recovered under the influence of nasal injections, and the 

 internal administration of tonics. 



It is impossible to enter into details as to the diagnosis of a 

 great variety of cures. I may mention, however, that the curable 

 discharges set out as incurable forms of glanders may be grouped 

 under six heads. 



1st. Fetid discharges from the nostril, owing to a carious tooth 

 and caries of the upper jaw. The fetor is characteristic. 



2d. Intermittent discharges from an abscess in one of the tur- 

 binated bones within the nasal chamber. The swelling of the 

 nasal bones and flow of pus when the head is jerked upward are 

 diagnostic. 



3d. Continuous or intermittent discharge from one or both 

 nostrils, from accumulations of pus in the frontal and superior 

 maxillary sinuses, indicated by the shape of the forehead and ab- 

 sence of resonance on percussion. 



4th. Irregular discharge from the guttural pouches, brought 

 on by exercise, or seen when an animal is made to eat hay, oats, 

 a turnip, or carrots off the ground. As the head is depressed and 

 jerked, a somewhat fetid and often abundant purulent matter 

 flows freely. 



5th. Discharges kept up by foreign objects in the posterior 

 nares, which are continuous and fetid. 



6th. Chronic regular nasal discharge — pure ozena — dependent 

 m constitutional causes and defective management of acute ca- 

 tarrh. 



All the foregoing varieties include the innumerable cases of 

 suspected glanders for which animals are wrongfully destroyei. 

 It is not every practitioner who can or would venture to open the 

 guttural pouches, or practice dissection on the bones of the face to 

 such an extent as we find requisite in overcoming deformities and 

 curing long-standing diseases. The longer these cases are treated 

 by any but the right plan, the greater the difficulties encountered 

 when surgical operations are determined upon ; and for this reason 

 even those who would not dare to cut should always strive cor- 

 rectly to diagnose the form of disease presenting itself. It is not 

 necessary to refer at greater length to the method of dealing witb 

 the very various forms of disease above indicated." 



