FOREIGN BODIES AND TUMOURS IN THE NOSTRILS. 
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(8.) FOREIGN BODIES AND TUMOURS IN THE 
NOSTRILS. 
Foreign bodies occasionally obtain entrance to the nostrils of hoises 
and cattle, and remain for long periods in situ. With the exception of 
pentastomum trenioides, foreign bodies are rarely found in the nostiils of 
the dog. Sponges or similar objects have even been inserted into the 
nostrils of horses in order to conceal a discharge, such as that of 
glanders. Hermann found a wisp of straw, Korner a piece of ribbon, in a 
horse’s nostrils. In a horse Moller had under treatment the lower meatus 
was discovered to be full of food, which had entered through the alveolus 
of a molar tooth. Dusseau, in making the autopsy of a horse, found in the 
nostrils forty bean-like, hard white bodies, consisting of diied mucus and 
epithelium, and believed them to have been formed in the guttural pouch. 
New growths, in the form of polypi, often occur in the nostiils. 
According to Ercolani, Cato and Absyrtus were acquainted with nasal 
polypi; and in 1784, Icart is said to have removed one weighing If lbs. 
from a horse. The growths are most commonly fibromata and myxomata, 
though lipomata, osteomata, enchondromata, angiomata, sarcomata, 
and carcinomata have been found. They often originate from the 
cribriform plate of the ethmoid or the lateral wall of the nostiil. Guilt 
has seen them develop from the nasal septum, Hizot from the 
turbinated bones. Hamburger discovered an extensive myxofibi oma in 
the septum nasi, whilst Lammers met with a case wheie the mucous 
membrane was thickened, and showed cavities containing numerous 
examples of strongylus armatus ; Kitt observed a sarcoma in the nostiil 
of a dog. Strerath found tuberculosis of the nasal mucous membrane in 
a calf. The animal had shown difficulty in breathing aftei taking food 
or water, and usually breathed through the mouth, making a snoring 
noise. The growths were of varying size, some as laige as grains of 
corn, some like peas, others again were confluent and gave the membrane 
a fatty appearance. Strebel described a cyst containing a piece of bone, 
which he found in an ox. He considered it had originated in the 
ethmoid bone. New growths occasionally extend into the nostril from 
the brain cavity and maxillary sinuses. Cases of bothryomycosis and 
actinomycosis of the nasal mucous membrane have also been obseived in 
the horse and ox. 
Symptoms. Both tumours and foreign bodies in the nostrils produce 
a muco-purulent discharge, which is generally one-sided, and often 
accompanied by bleeding. The pharyngeal glands are usually swollen. 
The air-stream from the affected nostril is weakei, and not mfiequentl} 
a loud breathing sound, resembling that in loaiing, is present, 
constituting asthma nasale. Compression of the lachrymal duct 
