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by one in addition to them, is a curable disease ; glanders remains 
incurable. 
On the 26th of September, 1847, a grey mare, aged ten years, 
was admitted for treatment on account of a yellowish muco- 
purulent flux from the near nostril, which had that day made its 
appearance without any preceding catarrh or other disorder, and 
was now unaccompanied by any signs of ill health ; the mare 
feeding well, and shewing her usual spirits and willingness to 
work. There was not at this time any fcetor perceptible through 
the affected nostril, though a few days afterwards the discharge 
became offensive ; but there was a small enlargement under- 
neath the jaw on the same side, which, from its circumscribed 
tubercular feel, as well as from its situation, was evidently a 
swelling of the submaxillary lymphatic glands of the left side. 
This cast suspicion on the case ; and on that account, by wa}' of 
setting at rest all apprehension of contingencies, the mare was at 
once put into a loose box, and looked after exclusively by her 
own man. 
At first her case was treated as though it had been no more 
than common catarrh. No benefit, however, accruing therefrom, 
kreasote injections were employed — syringed up the affected 
nostril ; and, at the same time, copaiba balsam was given in full 
doses. All, however, proving of no avail, on 
October 27 th, I resolved on pursuing the same plan of treat- 
ment which had proved so successful in a former case (related in 
vol. xix of The Veterinarian, p. 451). Accordingly, having 
had my patient cast, with the same small trephine I used on the 
former occasion — one I have had made for the purpose — I made 
an opening into the left frontal sinus, as close as was safe to the 
median line of the cranium. The skull proving unusually thin, 
unfortunately, notwithstanding the care taken, the pressure of the 
instrument forced the detached piece of bone back into the cavity 
of the sinus, from which with nothing I had at hand could I 
extract it. After she had risen, tepid water was injected into the 
opening, which ran away through the nostril turbid and loaded 
with flakes of more mucous than purulent matter. Air passed 
freely through the hole from the moment it was made. 
The day following, the tepid water injection was succeeded by a 
kreasote one, made as for the former case ; and this was repeated 
in the evening. 
October 3 Oth . — The flux is diminished ; also the foetor, which 
of late has been becoming more offensive, is lessened. 
November 1. — Yesterday and this morning masses of effused 
lymph have been, with forceps, dragged out of the sinus through 
the opening, part colourless, part the same as the crassamentum of 
