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mation and pressure, it adhered to the membrane of the nose in go 
many points, and so extensively, that it was impossible to get 
round it or move it. He contrived, at length, to pass a crucial 
bandage around it, and it was torn out by main force. Four con: 
siderable portions of the turbinated bones were brouglit away wit). 
it. The hemorrhage was excessive. He however filled the nos- 
tril completely with tow, and brought the divided edges of the 
false nostril together by sutures, In three days they were all 
torn out by the incessant attempts of the animal to get rid of the 
obstruction; but the horse eventually did well. The polypus 
weighed two pounds seven ounces.” 
GoHIER relates a case of a horse who had in his left nostril a 
polypus as large as a turkey’s egg, of a grayish color and glossy 
surface, too high up to be reached with the finger, which prevented 
his breathing on that side, and geve rise to offensive effluvium, tc 
enlargement of the lymphatic glands, but not to roaring. Go- 
HIER slit up the nostril, and, with an irou rod with a notch upon 
its end, contrived to inclose its neck in the slip-knot of a liga- 
ture. In drawing this tight, however—which was, of necessity 
done in an oblique direction—the pedicle was cut through. Little 
hemorrhage succeeded, although the tumor weighed twenty-four 
ounces. The slit nostril was sewn up, and cold water injected into 
its cavity. A copious discharge from both nostrils followed, with 
swelling of the lymphatic glands. This was met by proper treat- 
ment, and in fifteen days the patient was sent ont of the hospital 
BRONCHOCELE (GOITRE, OR Bie NECK). 
Bronchocele, or enlargement of the thyroid glands, is a disease 
which very frequently makes its appearance among certain breeds 
of horses and sheep, and is supposed to owe its origin to heredi- 
tary preitispositions and influences, It is also very prevalent 
among meryabers of the human family. It seems to acquire a 
home in certain localities in Derbyshire, England, where it is 
said to be a very common disorder; but its occurrence in other 
parts of that country is by no means frequent. Among the in- 
habitants of the Alps, and other mountainc us countries bordering 
thereon, it is a disease very often met with. 
The uncastrated animals seem to suffer most. After they get 
