^ THE HORSE, ITS DISEASES. 31 1 



IV. Nasal Gleet. 



Causes.^-This affliction sometimes follows distemper and strangles and 

 is one of the attendants on glanders, sometimes running into it. It is 

 sometimes caused by a chronic affection of the schneiderian surfaces. It 

 is caused sometimes by the relaxing and enlarging of the ducts commu- 

 nicating between the cavities of the mouth and nose by disease, allowing 

 the semi-liquid food and its juices to pass into the nostrils. This is true 

 chronic gleet, and the discharge is tinged with what the animal eats. It 

 is in one of its forms a suppuration of the mucus membrane lining in the 

 facial sinuses, producing distortion and a terribly offensive dischar-o-e, 

 which may have been produced by a blow on the face. In bad cases the 

 cheapest way is to end the animal's misery by killing. 



How to know it. — Discharge is not always present, neither is it uniform. 

 Sometimes during fair weather it will be discontinued. The discharge is 

 a thick yellow mucus tinged with green, if the food be grass, or with the 

 color of the food. If it becomes purulent, that is pus, matter, and 

 tinged with blood, it may end in ulceration of the cartilages of the nose, 

 and in glanders. If the discharge is confined to the left nostril, is tena- 

 cious, elastic, accumulates around the edges of the nose, if there is 

 enlargement of the lymphatic submaxillary gland, under and on the side 

 of the jaw, it is cheaper to kill the horse, or else call in a surgeon, since 

 for the proper treatment of the disease the trephine should be used, 

 by which a circular piece of the bone may be taken out to facilitate 

 treatment. 



How to Cure. — In mild cases look for decayed molar (grinding) teeth ; 

 if found, remove them. Look for swelling of the frontal bone, produced 

 by bruises. Put the horse where he may be comfortable, let his diet 

 be light, but soft ; fresh grass in Summer, with good food. Inject the 

 nasal passages thoroughly with the following ; 



No. 40. 1 Ounce bayberry bark, 



1 Pint boiling water. 



When cool strain through a close linen or white flannel cloth, and inj&a^ 

 daily. 



Prepare the following : 



Ko. 4L 1 Part Grains of Paradise, 



1 Part white mustard seed, 

 1 Part powdered sulphur, 

 1 Part powdered charcoal. 

 Mix, and give one ounce daily in the foo4U 



