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resolved, as the only way of effecting a permanent cure, to remove 
the diseased teeth. The horse was cast, and, by means of the ordi- 
nary tooth-key, three of the postero-superior molar teeth on the side 
diseased were safely extracted. In a few days after the operation 
the discharge had considerably diminished in quantity, and under 
the continued application of proper remedies it speedily and com- 
pletely subsided, and the case is now in every respect quite well. 
There are also, in this as in former reports, cases included under 
this head, where the superior maxillary bone and sinus have been 
injured from considerable elongation of the posterior molar teeth in 
the inferior maxilla, causing a continued nasal discharge in many 
cases mistaken for that of glanders, and which cases have even 
been treated for that disease. They are easily remedied by 
shortening the tooth or teeth with a pair of strong cutting tooth 
forceps, and, of course, the discharge almost immediately ceases. 
There are, again, other cases of discharge from the nose, more fre- 
quently mistaken for what is called chronic glanders ; and, in con- 
sequence of the treatment resorted to being attended with appa- 
rent success, an idea has been entertained by some persons that 
they have actually cured that intractable malady in many instances. 
These consist in accumulations of pus in the sinuses of the head, 
and are mostly the result of neglected catarrh, or the sequelae of 
severe and imperfectly removed inflammatory affections of the 
superior air-passages; and while it is easy to see that setons 
passing through the cranial and facial sinuses will have the effect 
of removing these accumulations, it must be equally obvious, to 
those who are acquainted with the specific and virulent nature of 
glanders, that such treatment cannot have the effect of curing that 
malady, or of mitigating its consequences. 
Under the head “ Sprains of Tendons,” one case in particular 
may deserve notice. The patient was a bay cart-horse belonging 
to a gardener near town, and was admitted on Tuesday, Sept. 16th. 
The flexor tendons of the near fore leg had been repeatedly 
sprained, which led to a permanent and considerable thickening 
of their substance ; and at the time the horse was brought here, 
contraction of them to such an extent had taken place, as to render 
him completely useless. When walking, the front part of the toe 
was the only portion of the foot that came to the ground ; and if 
made to move more rapidly, the anterior surface of the hoof would 
come down also. The owner was informed that the only means 
of relief consisted in dividing the tendons, and, after some hesita- 
tion, he consented that the operation should be performed. On the 
18th, after having a proper shoe fixed on the foot, the horse was 
cast and securely fastened : the leg affected was then loosed from 
the hobbles, and retained in an extended position by a cord round 
