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MEMOIRS OF A VETERINARY SURGEON. 
THOUGHTS ON NASAL GLEET. 
By Mr. Thomas Greaves, M.R.C.V.S., Manchester. 
It is probably within the experience of most practitioners 
that nasal gleet is not always easily cured. Now and then 
cases come under our treatment which exceed the usual time 
ordinarily required for recovery by the majority of catarrhal 
attacks, and such occasionally degenerate into glanders. 
It is not my attention in these pages to dwell upon the 
nature and treatment of common catarrhal affections ; but 
to apply myself to the subject of maltreated or neglected 
catarrh, together with other causes of chronic nasal discharges. 
Neither am I about to lay claim to any new mode of treat- 
ment whereby a cure can always and with certainty be 
effected; but it having fallen to my lot to be more often 
engaged with these kind of cases than happens in the practice 
of the majority of veterinary surgeons, they have necessarily 
awakened in me much anxious thought and serious reflection ; 
and having thus become familiarized with the varied phases 
•of the disease, I have frequently experienced the gratification 
of witnessing many cases succumb to the treatment adopted 
by me. 
In the year 1845, I was intrusted to carry out an inves- 
tigation as to the cause of the diseased condition of the horses 
in one of the largest establishments in the kingdom. It had 
been the custom in this establishment to shoot sixteen or 
eighteen horses annually for glanders. This state of things 
had existed for a great number of years, and fresh cases kept 
continually presenting themselves for the same summary 
treatment. Many years anterior to the above date, the 
opinion and advice of the late Professor Coleman was taken, 
who came down into this neighbourhood, and, after an 
examination of the horses, condemned numbers of them to 
be shot. Still the disease was never eradicated. 
In the year above alluded to, neither pains nor expenses 
were spared in completely cleansing, refitting, repaving, and 
reventilating all the stables. A most careful inspection was 
made of all the horses, and this frequently repeated ; in fact, 
there was a careful scrutiny always going on. All the worst 
cases were at once destroyed, and every suspicious case 
removed far away from the rest. These latter were cases of 
