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ceeded, for two or three days longer, in syringing in my injections. 
By the fifteenth day, however, I was completely blocked out. 
Nature had made her fence of that hard callous description which 
was no longer penetrable by an iron probe, without using a force 
that might do much mischief. 
At this stage of my proceedings, it appearing to me that, from 
the irritation and inflammation manifestly set up in the sinuses of 
the affected side of the head, as well as in the nasal chambers and 
passages, by the trephining and injecting, some change must take 
place in the membrane lining those sinuses and passages, and that 
the change might possibly be such as in the end to prove con- 
ducive to my patient’s recovery, I resolved, for some time at least, 
to forbear all medical treatment whatever. My reader, perhaps, 
will think it was high time I should do so, when I inform him 
that now my patient had been six months in the infirmary. Ab- 
stinence from every thing tending to irritate was followed, as be- 
fore, by a gradual diminution and clearing of the nasal discharges, 
with simultaneous lessening of the swollen glands, the foetor con- 
tinuing as before. In another month’s time, however, I had the 
satisfaction to find that the nasal flux had disappeared altogether, 
that the foetor likewise was nothing so perceptible as it had been, 
and that the glands had become smaller than I had known them 
at any former period. Two months were allowed to elapse, and 
my patient was, bond fide , a recovered horse : without discharge, 
without foetor, without glandular enlargement, and likewise, as 
he all along had been, indeed — save when disordered by me- 
dicine — in excellent health and spirits, and fat and sleek in 
condition. Four months have now passed since my “ cured” 
patient left the infirmary. He continues at work as sound and as 
able as ever he was. 
Shall we say, “ the case wore itself out ?” — “ ran itself dry 1” — 
“ that the horse would have done quite as well turned out at grass'!” 
Be it so. I am, for my own part, really desirous that my pro- 
fessional brethren should form their own views as the case stands. 
They will permit me to think — as I have thought on occasions 
before — that some beneficial change was effected in the condition 
of the Schneiderian membrane of the affected side of the head, and 
to that change the happy result was ascribable. Take any view 
we like of it, however, the case altogether stands prominently for- 
ward to shew us what is meant when persons talk of “ CURING 
GLANDERS.” 
