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GANGRENE OF THE HIND QUARTERS. 
tumefied a little. The next symptom was a fine white and thick 
discharge from the nostrils, which, after the lapse of a day or two, 
increased enormously. The tumefaction of the jaw decreased, and 
gave no indication whatever of suppurative tendency. This pro- 
fuse flux from the nostrils suddenly became extremely inspissated, 
causing stertorous breathing, but in other respects it was a very 
wholesome discharge. The quantity became so enormous, that all 
the sinuses of the nose and face were as mechanically obstructed as 
though they had been plugged with dough. 
I think the case was genuine strangles by inoculation up to this 
crisis ; but here commenced the fatal change in its character, owing 
to the imprisoned pus within the cavities of the head being in 
constant communication with atmospheric air. To be brief, the 
animal died within a few days of acute glanders. 
It fell to my brother’s lot to saw the skull, and prepare the mor- 
bid parts for the lecturer’s table. The poor fellow was inoculated 
through a very slight scratch of the finger, which proved fatal. 
Whatever may be the difficulties in the way of arriving at a 
feasible theory on this experiment, here is one great and most ex- 
traordinary fact. It was the germ of strangles which was ab- 
sorbed and propagated in the system of the ass, and in the space of 
a few days became transformed into glanders, within the same 
organization. 
The following experiments denote the comparative susceptibility 
of the horse and the ass : — With pus taken from my brother’s arm 
I inoculated two healthy asses : they both died of farcy and glan- 
ders in less than a fortnight. Upon the same day, with pus from 
the same source, I inoculated a two-year-old horse colt, inserting the 
virus in various parts of the limbs, as well as the head, without any 
visible effects at the time, or afterwards. 
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GANGRENE OF THE HIND QUARTERS IN A HEIFER, 
FOLLOWED BY TETANUS AND DESTRUCTION. 
By Mr. JOHN Relph, Sebergham. 
A GALLOWAY heifer, one-and-a-half year old, and in high con- 
dition, was found very lame on the afternoon of the 25th Septem- 
ber last. Next morning I found some emphysematous swelling, 
evidently of a gangrenous character, a little superior and posterior 
to the left stifle joint. It was exceedingly lame in that limb — the 
countenance rather dull — the pulse increased in frequency, but not 
