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CRIMEAN REMINISCENCES. 
On exposing* the Schneiderian membrane, by laying open 
the nasal cavities, we discovered that ulcerous condition of it 
which is characteristic of glanders. The “dug out” appearance 
of the ulcers with their ragged edges, the gluey character of 
the discharge, which lay in flakes on the membrane, and the 
odour of the broken up tissues, vrhich was highly offensive, 
but easily distinguishable from that which belonged to the 
ordinary putrefaction of many horses, mules, &c., that lay in 
the immediate vicinity — all denoted the true nature of the 
malady. The ulcers increased in number the higher w T e 
carried our inspection, till we reached the cribeiform plates 
of the ethmoidal bones, where they were lost in the extensive 
disorganization there existing. Besides these lesions we 
found tubercles, miliary and aggregate, in the lungs. The 
muscular tissue throughout was pale, almost to whiteness ; 
the skin corrugated from cutaneous disease; and the poor 
brute greatly emaciated. 
Farcy buds, which firstly attracted our attention to the 
case, were present on the upper and lower lips. The sub- 
maxillary glands on both sides were likewise indurated, al- 
though not adhering to the jaw. As I could not obtain any 
history of the animal, I am unable to say how the disease 
originated, but it is not unlikely that it might have arisen 
from inoculation. 
The case being undoubtedly glanders, its communicability 
to ruminants is rendered evident, but whether it is capable 
of originating with them or not remains to be proved. 
TUBERCULOSIS. 
A few days after the arrival of a large draft of fine mules 
from Valencia, Alicantia, and Gibraltar, in the course of my 
inspection of them, I observed a fine mare of their number 
in a plethoric condition, breathing with much difficulty, and 
having a slight discharge from both nostrils. She was much 
depressed in her general appearance ; the pulse was quick, 
mouth hot, breath offensive, extremities cold, and appetite 
totally gone. 
These symptoms not justifying any antiphlogistic treatment, 
I gave stimulants, clothed the body, and bandaged the legs, 
anticipating an aggravation of the animal’s sufferings. On the 
following morning my patient was much worse, and, in addi- 
tion to the other symptoms, there was a drooping of the 
head, and a change both in the nature and quantity of the 
discharge, which now consisted of blood and pus, evidently 
coming from the lungs, while the breath was even more fetid 
