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O BSERVATIONS 



UPON 



Glander'd Horses. 



AFTER having trepanned an old horfe 

 J *■ in 1749, and dreffed him, they put him 

 to work -, and eighteen months after he was 

 knocked on the head. I faw by differing his 

 head that the pituitary membrane was grown 6 

 or 7 lines thick, and cflified to the neighbour- 

 ing bones -, it had acquired this thicknefs and 

 confiitence by the ftagnation 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 finus ; 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 effect con- 

 firmed my fufpicion. The glands of the jaws 

 were i welled on the morbid fide, ulcers were 

 formed on the pituitary membrane, matter flow- 

 ed 



