GLANDERS OR NOT ? 
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GLANDERS OR NOT? 
Sir, — Should the following case be of sufficient interest 
for publication, you are at liberty to insert it in your Journal. 
On the 6th September last, my attention was drawn to a 
low-bred horse, in fair condition, for opinion and advice. 
According to the owner’s account, there had been a discharge 
from the nostril for some time, and he had previously had a 
glandered horse in his stud. Upon examination, I found a 
copious and adhesive discharge from the off nostril only ; 
submaxillary gland, on the same side, enlarged and adhering ; 
a large ulcer upon the Schneiderian membrane, and two 
smaller ones near it. 
From these symptoms, coupled with the history of the 
case, I considered the horse glandered, and gave very little 
hope of benefit from medical treatment. 
The proprietor, however, was willing to hazard a little 
expense, and so determined to give the patient a fortnight's 
trial ! The subsequent treatment to be governed by the 
result of that probation. 
After ordering the horse a loose airy box, with generous 
diet and gentle exercise daily, I touched the ulcers with 
lunar caustic, and repeated the same the following day. 
The horse took, in solution, 3iv Cupri Sul., with gruel. The 
medicine produced violent griping pains, which were com- 
bated with T. Opii, Car. Sodae Sol., and plenty of wheaten 
gruel. 
For one day, the medicine was discontinued, and the 
abdominal pains having ceased, the horse took daily, in solu- 
tion, 3iij Sul. Cupri, which mode of treatment being con- 
tinued for fourteen days, the discharge had so diminished as 
to lead me to consider the case more favorably, particularly 
as the ulcerations had, during this time, altogether dis- 
appeared. I therefore ordered the medicine to be continued 
as before, and, in less than a month from the commence- 
ment of the case, ceased to administer the drinks, as the 
owner, judging from the subsidence of all the symptoms, con- 
sidered more medicine to be superfluous. 
The enlarged submaxillary gland had been dispersed, — 
the ulcers and discharge had likewise disappeared. 
Since which time the patient has followed his usual work 
without the least symptom of a relapse, although I have 
frequently examined it. 
If my diagnosis was correct, and the patient was really 
glandered, 1 think the brief space of time must have ex- 
