THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XX, No. 236. AUGUST 1847. New Series, No. 68. 
A SECOND CASE OF NASAL GLEET (PSEUDO- 
GLANDERS) IN HORSES, 
SUCCESSFULLY TREATED WITH THE TREPHINE AND INJECTION. 
By Wm. Percivall, M.R.C.S. and V.S. 
VETERINARY science can boast of few greater improvements 
than the successful prophylactic measures which it has been the 
means of introducing against the generation and spread of glan- 
ders, and of that advance in the knowledge of the disease itself 
which has taught us to distinguish between what is and what is 
not glanders. Numbers of cases of the nature of the one I am 
about to narrate have fallen victims to the pistol or sledge-hammer, 
under the impression that they were so many cases of glanders ; 
and numerous apprehensions have been entertained, and as many 
unnecessary precautions put into practice, under the same erroneous 
supposition. It has been said, and said with truth, “we had 
better take twenty precautionary steps too many than one too 
few and as it is admitted that glanders may for a time assume 
the form of nasal gleet, and does not unfrequently in the incipient 
stage so do, it behoves us to continue within a certain limit such 
precautionary measures. Nasal gleet, however, is no more glan- 
ders than glanders is nasal gleet or catarrh ; neither is there any 
more likelihood, that I know of, of nasal gleet turning to glanders, 
than there is of inveterate or chrdnic catarrh, which, in point of 
fact, it may be said to be. 
If we required any further proof of this than is afforded by a 
consideration of the history, the symptoms, and the pathology of 
these diseases respectively, we now appear to have it in the 
comparative results of treatment upon them. Nasal gleet, as I 
have shewn by former cases, and now am about to demonstrate 
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