90 NASAL POLYPUS, 
ceeding may be repeated; but, when death appears confirmed in the 
tumor, twist the tube till the pedicle gives way. 
The advantages possessed by this invention is, firstly, the ability of 
twisting a ligature tight when the growth is partly removed from view. 
Also, in the adoption of wire which will retain the form it is placed in, 
and remain unaffected by the moisture natural to the nostrils. More- 
over, the tube can be made without the screwing head-piece, and answers 
quite as well, or even better, when solid. If made without the screwing 
head-piece, it can assume a flattened form, and it is somewhat casier to 
introduce; but the wire, in that case, must have both ends pushed 
through the holes down the tube. 
The bleeding polypus is not met with in the horse. For that poly- 
pus which sprouts from the nasal membrane and extends to the fauces, 
impeding respiration and deglutition, appearing like a disease of the 
structure, to which it is attached by a broad base, nothing can be done. 
It grows fast, and in a short time renders longer life a larger misery. 
The polypus which admits of removal is a smooth, moist, glistening 
and vascular body. It greatly impedes the breathing. These growths 
have been known to push out the cartilaginous division of the nostrils 
until the once free passage was all but obliterated. They provoke a 
constant discharge of pure mu- 
cus, and, on that account, the 
horse, thus affected, has been 
condemned as glandered. How- 
A TENACULUM. ever, the truth may be at once 
recognized by closing the nos- 
trils alternately. It is then easy to discover which cavity is affected, as 
a resistance is provoked by stopping the free channel, which bears no 
resemblance to glanders. To bring down the polypus, cough the horse, 
by making gentle pressure upon the topmost part of the windpipe; for, 
during the stages of glanders, any appearance at all resembling polypus 
is never present. It was usual, the instant the growth was visible, 
to transfer it with a tenaculum. This, however, like other barbarities, 
only did harm. The substance of a polypus is easily rent, and it bleeds 
freely. The bleeding concealed much, which, after proceedings rendered 
necessary, should be plainly seen. It is better, when sufficient room is 
not left for operation or inspection, to proceed with greater boldness, so 
as to ascertain the advantages likely to result from further measures. 
Then throw the horse, and with a probe-pointed, straight bistoury, slit 
up the nostril upon the outer side. That done, release the animal till 
all bleeding has ceased, when the endeavors may be renewed with a 
better prospect of success. Afterward, close the incision with a double 
