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OBSERVATIONS 



UPON 



Glander^d Horses. 



1^ F T E R having trepanned an old horle 

 •^^ in 1749, and dreffed him, they put him 

 to work ; and eighteen months after he was 

 knocked on the head. I faw by difledmg his 

 head that the pituitary membrane was grown 6 

 or y lines thick, and offified to the neighbour- 

 ing bones •, it had acquired this thicknefs and 

 confiftence by the flagnation of the lymphatic 

 juice, caufed by the inflammation and the fpread- 

 ing of the ulcers. 



2. A horfe received a kick of another 

 horfe, which broke part of the bone of the max- 

 illary fmus ', having examined the wound, I 

 found it was not mortal •, but as the finus was 

 injured, and the pituitary membrane inflamed, I 

 did not doubt but the glanders would come 

 on, and it was not long before the eflecft con- 

 firmed my fijfpicion. The glands of the jaws 

 were fwelled on the morbid fide, ulcers were 

 formed on the pituitary membrane, matter flow- 

 ed 



