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influence of decomposing vegetable substances ; and I am much 
mistaken if this influence, in a more secret but scarcely less fatal 
degree, is not connected with the mortality, whether occasional 
or habitual, which prevails among the dairy stock of the farmer. 
This is a view of the subject well deserving of consideration, 
and to which I shall return at some future period ; but in the 
mean time our brethren in the country, who have more frequent 
and better opportunities to trace out these causes and indications 
of disease, would benefit their profession, and occupy their 
proper station with reference to the interests of the agriculturist, 
by taking up the matter. 
The time, surely, cannot be far distant when the veterinary 
practitioner will be better prepared for such an inquiry. Reason, 
common sense, and the interests of the country at large, impe- 
riously demand it. 
OSSEOUS TUMOURS ON A HORSE, COMPLICATED 
WITH ACUTE GLANDERS. 
By M. Riss. 
A STRONG-built horse reached his fourth year without any 
disease but strangles. This malady had attacked him in his 
third year, and, not running its full course, had produced such a 
state of emaciation and weakness that he was not able to rise 
without assistance. At length he began to recover, but con- 
tinued very much out of condition ; and his owner, attributing 
this to his hankering after some mares, had him castrated. He 
was then three and a half years old. The operation took 
place on the 15th of June, 1821: it was skilfully performed, 
but the incision w'as not perfectly healed until the 28th of 
August. 
A little while afterwards he was sold to a horse-dealer, who 
kept him about eight months, and during this time I attended 
him for nasal catarrh, and afterwards for acute pulmonary catarrh. 
He was sold and resold many times in the years 1822-3, every 
new proprietor getting rid of him, because he was almost unser- 
viceable. At length he became broken-winded, and so continued 
until June 1828, when other symptoms began to develop them- 
selves. He was exceedingly thin, the coat dry and adherent, 
and the hair rough ; the head was depressed ; all four limbs were 
enlarged ; the pulse was small and quick ; the sublingual glands 
enlarged, tender, and adherent ; a discharge from the nose of 
a green yellow humour, adhering to the edges of the nostrils, 
