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the blood. The tepid water injection brings away at first flakes 
of purulent matter, after which it runs in a stream through the 
cavities and issues unclouded at the nostril. It is then that the 
kreasote injection is thrown in. The mare preserves her good 
health and spirits, and the opposite nostril remains unaffected. 
November VUh . — The plug has been kept in until to-day, but 
will not remain in any longer ; the injections having been regu- 
larly administered morning and evening. The discharge during 
the time has varied, sometimes more, sometimes less, retaining at 
all times, however, the same yellowish, thin, muco-purulent cha- 
racter. It flows in most abundance after using the injections; at 
other times, the man says it is but scanty. The trephined aper- 
ture is rapidly filling with granulations from the internal mem- 
brane ; and although this compels us to leave out the plug, we are 
yet able to throw in the injections. 
20 th . — Such has been the progress of granulation since last 
report, that there seems hardly any aperture remaining admitting 
of further injection. There is, except at the times of injection, 
less discharge ; also the foetor is diminishing. 
24 th . — The day after last report, we found it useless to attempt 
further injection ; the consequence has been that the discharge 
has almost ceased, amounting to nothing more than a little aqueous 
dripping. The swollen gland is growing looser and smaller, and 
the foetor is hardly perceptible. 
27 th . — No discharge, no foetor, very little glandular enlarge- 
ment. The wound made by the reflection of the skin for the 
trephine has contracted to the size of a pea; the granulations 
sprouting out of it requiring erosion. In a word, all but this small 
sore, she might be regarded as “ cured.” 
December 20th . — Her departure from the infirmary has been 
deferred until to-day, it being desirable to know that her gleet has 
ceased altogether; which appearing to be the case, she was 
now sent away, full of spirits, kicking and frolicking about, in 
excellent fat condition. Scarcely had she left the infirmary ten 
minutes, when the man returned, saying she had, in one of her 
gambols and fits of snorting, ejected a mass of green-looking 
offensive matter from her near nostril. Here was at once evi- 
dence that “ the snake had been but scotched, not destroyed ;” 
accordingly she was, not a little to our disappointment and vexa- 
tion, once more admitted as a patient in our foul stable. 
23 d . — The nostril has been emitting, but not in any great 
quantity. Yesterday the discharge shewed a greenish tinge ; 
to-day there is a small stream of thin purulent matter, much the 
same as there was formerly. 
1847, January 1 \th . — From the date of last report until 
