POLYPUS IN THK NOSTRIL OF A HORSE. 
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illlary and parotid glands, and parts round the glottis being 
very much swollen, extending down nearly to the chest, and the 
off nostril quite plugged up with a fungus protruding four inches 
from the nostril. 
Upon examination, I found that it extended up the bony ca- 
vity, and plugged it up so tightly that I could not pass my little 
finger. Finding the animal very much distressed in respiration, 
on account of the obstruction arising from these two causes, l 
was at first inclined to perform the operation of bronchotomy ; 
but he being a very thick, short-necked horse, and the swelling 
extending down to the chest, I feared there would be great 
difficulty in completing the operation, and therefore declined it. 
I cut off' four inches of the protruding fungus, which weighed 
four ounces. The wound bled to the extent of about a quart, and 
then stopped. I ordered fomentations and applications of sti- 
mulating liniment, to encourage suppuration from the neck, &c. 
and gruel to be set before the horse ; but he could not swallow 
any food or fluid until suppuration took place and extended so far 
that I was able to open an abscess on the 7th, which relieved 
the animal very much. The respiration was particularly relieved, 
and he was able to suck in a little gruel. The suppuration con- 
tinued freely, as from other abscesses when opened ; and on the 
16th he was so far recovered that I thought I could cast him 
without the danger of suffocating him, which I most likely should 
have done if 1 had attempted it when I first saw him. I divided 
the integuments of the nostril as high as the bony union of the 
nasal and maxillary bones would admit, so as to be able to grasp 
the polypus close to the bones of the nose (I should have 
observed, that it had protruded in its growth nearly as far out of 
the nostril as before I cut off the four inches), which I did, and 
kept steadily pulling at it, shifting my hold as it elongated, and 
it came out quite whole, with its pedicle, which appeared to have 
had its origin high up in the frontal sinuses, and was about the 
diameter of a halfpenny. The polypus had the form of the 
passage of the nostril, and appeared to have filled up every cavity 
between the turbinator bones. 
The animal lost about two quarts of blood from the nostril and 
mouth. At first the blood, running on to the glottis, set him 
coughing, and I was a little alarmed ; but it soon subsided. 
The edges of the wound in the nostril, which I brought together 
by sutures united by the first intention. The animal was put to 
work ten days after, and has continued (as he is now in exist- 
ence) without any return of disease or difficulty of breathing. 
The polypus was eighteen inches long, and weighed one and a 
quarter pound. 
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