A CASE OF NASAL DISCHARGE IN A HORSE. 691 
prietor, at Fulham. He had had a thick foetid discharge, confined to 
the off nostril, during six months. I examined him, and believe it 
to have proceeded from a diseased state of the turbinated bones or 
from a carious tooth. 
The owner requested my opinion as to whether I considered it to 
be contagious or a case of glanders. I told him that I did not 
consider it to be contagious, nor yet a case of glanders ; for, in my 
opinion, a case of true glanders is not, generally speaking, ac- 
companied by any foetid odour ; and I would remark that there was 
not here any enlargement of the submaxillary gland. Other horses 
had been standing by him the whole of the time, and had not ex- 
hibited any symptoms of it. 
The discharge would sometimes cease for several days, and at 
other times it would be expelled in large quantities, and of such a 
character, that, to use the coachman’s words, “the stench was such 
as to render it almost impossible to sit upon the box.” He 
always fed well, and appeared lively and did his work well to 
the very last. 
Treatment : — I recommended trephining him, but the owner 
would not consent to it : I therefore gave him tonic medicine, and 
ordered a dilute solution of chlorinated lime to be injected up his 
nostril. He continued to work until September 17th, 1844, and 
then returned home at about eleven o’clock at night. He had not 
been in the stable more than half an hour, when he was suddenly 
attacked, in the owner’s opinion, with gripes. A farrier was called 
in, who administered to him some of his gripe medicine ; but the 
horse died within an hour from the attack. 
I had not an opportunity of seeing him myself while in that 
state ; but, from what I could learn, the symptoms resembled those 
attending a case of apoplexy. He violently plunged about from 
the time of his attack until death terminated his sufferings. 
I happened to be accidentally passing that way on the following 
morning, and saw them opening him. They told me that there 
was not a diseased tooth or disease of any kind in the head, f, 
however, examined the head myself, and convinced them of their 
error, for the turbinated bones in the off nostril were completely 
blocked up by a thick purulent matter ; and also an abscess had 
formed itself immediately over the foramina laceri, which had 
burst itself through upon the brain, and, as I think, accounted for 
those violent symptoms prior to death. The dura mater was also 
diseased, and emitted a foetor similar to that from the nostril. I 
have seen many similar cases, with the exception of the abscess, 
that had broke through upon the brain. 
