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DISEASE OF THE FRONTAL AND MAXILLARY 
SINUSES, AND FORMATION OF ABSCESSES IN 
THE LUNGS ; THE SEQUELAE OF INFLUENZA. 
By W. D. Bray, V.S., Broughton-in-Furness. 
In the month of August I purchased a horse, half-bred, 
five years old, and about fifteen hands high. 
History. — The animal has been in the possession of a con- 
tractor on the London and Wolverhampton Railway, for the 
last twelve months, and employed by him for the purpose of 
carting provision, &c., for the other horses. Influenza having 
been very prevalent amongst the other horses, this horse 
had also a slight attack, and a slight discharge issuing from 
the nostrils was still existing. He was disposed of on the 
supposition of being glandered. I purchased him on the 
18th of August, 1856. 
Symptoms. — Violent cough ; increased lachrymal secretion ; 
general depression ; breathing accelerated ; pulse quick ; a 
discharge from both nostrils, which is thin and watery ; 
throat appears sore ; neither the maxillary, the submaxillary, 
nor the parotid glands are tumefied ; pain is evinced on 
pressure being applied to the trachea ; the dung is offensive, 
slimy, and voided in small quantities, and hard; the urine is 
thick and very high coloured. 
Treatment . — A dose of aperient medicine was given, and a 
stimulating embrocation applied to the throat. After the 
bowels were slightly opened, Nit. Pot., 3 ss j was exhibited 
night and morning, for a few days. The animal is turned 
out by day on good grass. 
August 25th. — The horse is more lively, the cough less, 
the pulse normal, but the discharge from the nostrils has 
increased, and is of a yellowdsh appearance, although not 
tinged with blood in the slightest degree. 
The treatment to the 31st consisted in giving doses of 
Cupri. Sulph., 3j, made into a ball with linseed meal and 
treacle, twice a day. 
September 1st. — The animal is much improved in con- 
dition, but the cough is more oppressive than even at first, 
and is very violent on the horse being put into a brisk trot. 
The discharge from the nostrils is not at all diminished, and 
is very thick and offensive, although whiter in colour ; the 
pulse is accelerated, and the throat still appears sore, but 
