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NASAL GLEET. 
of April 1845, on account of an attack of the influenza, at the 
time prevalent in the metropolis. He was a slack-backed, large 
horse, without breeding, and, although in fat condition at the time, 
had the disease in a mild form. Soreness of the throat, discharge 
from the nose, slight fever, cough, &c. continued on him for a 
fortnight, when the discharge appeared to have nearly or quite 
ceased from the off nostril, but to have augmented and settled upon 
the near one. There was also now perceptible a slight tumefac- 
tion of the submaxillary lymphatic gland on the near side. 
As soon as all symptoms of the influenza had departed, and the 
animal’s appetite had become good enough to enable him by 
generous feeding to recover his impaired strength and condition, it 
was deemed advisable to change the treatment to a form better 
suited to the altered character of his disease, which had now degene- 
rated into a simple gleet, confined to one nostril, of muco-purulent 
matter, mingled with more or less serous or aqueous fluid : the 
purulent, mucous, or watery ingredients predominating according 
to circumstances — sometimes apparent, at other times not — and 
the flux accompanied by more or less fcetor, perceptibly offensive, 
whenever the nose of the examiner was applied to the affected 
nostril of the horse. Antiphlogistics were now exchanged for 
remedies of a tonic and astringent nature. Steel, bark, gentian, 
turpentine, balsam of copaiba, cantharides, &c. were in succession 
administered; but without any more than temporary and uncertain 
benefit on the part of some, and no benefit whatever on the part of 
others. I adopted the exhibition of iron as recommended by Mr. 
James Turner, and found it a simple and effectual method of ad- 
ministration : the horse drank an amount of water daily contain- 
ing two drachms of the sulphate of iron, and continued doing so 
for six weeks, consuming altogether ten ounces and a half of the 
salt. Towards the conclusion, it rendered him feverish, took him 
off his appetite, and blackened his dung-balls, but had no ob- 
servable effect whatever on his nasal gleet. 
It was now resolved to set aside all internal remedy, and to 
confine our treatment to external applications. Injections of all 
kinds, astringent and escharotic, were tried with various effect. 
Some for a short time suppressed the discharge ; others increased 
it and altered its character. A seton was passed underneath the 
skin, extending from a little below the eye to the nostril of the 
affected side, and kept in, discharging well, for twenty-three days; 
with some little benefit at first, but, subsequently, with none 
whatever. 
My next experiment was to me one of more interest and hope- 
fulness. I felt desirous of making trial of the much-lauded crea- 
sote injection, first introduced to our notice by Dr. Elliotson. 
