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rinarian, page 10G, where “ about half a pint of thick puru¬ 
lent matter” escaped from the frontal sinuses, after a consider¬ 
able discharge from the nostrils had been established for upwards 
of a year. It is also there said, there was no ulceration of the 
Schneiderian membrane • but I think it almost impossible to 
decide whether there was or not, from the inability fairly to exa¬ 
mine far up the nostrils in this or any other case. 
This solitary case shews that a horse may have excessive dis¬ 
charge from his nostrils, and matter in his frontal sinuses, together 
with enlarged glands, for upwards of a year, and yet not have 
the glanders. The writer of “ The Library of Useful Knowledge ,” 
page 70, voL i, says “ if there is matter in the frontal sinuses, 
we may be sure the horse is glandered,” which is quite contrary 
to Mr. Watts's case above. 
MR. SPOONER TO MR. JAMES TURNER 
ON SHOEING. 
Dear Sir, - r / * ; ^ 
In reply to your letter, which appeared in The Veterinarian, 
vol. iii, No. 32, I beg’ to say, that I read, and duly appreciated 
your remarks on shoeing, in answer to Mr. C. Clark; and I pur¬ 
posely omitted to dwell on those points you there so clearly 
illustrate. The cause of truth is a sacred cause, and w hen I add 
my mite in its support (though it be but a drop in the ocean), 
I do not consider I am unworthily occupied. The root of pre¬ 
judice is fixed and deep; and it requires both time and patience 
to subvert it, and establish new T systems; but, though slow’ in its 
march, truth is sure in its advance, and in the end —Vincit omnia 
veritas . Believe me. 
Dear Sir, truly your’s, 
W. C. Spooner. 
Bla nd ford, Oct. 12 th. 
A CASE OF SANGUINEOUS APOPLEXY. 
By the same. 
October 11, 1830. 
A bay mare,seven years old and full of flesh, had been working 
at plough for several hours, when she began kicking violently 
(a practice to which she was before occasionally addicted). 
1 wo men were unable to hold her: she ran furiously about the 
field for several minutes; dropped down suddenly, and expired 
almost immediately. 
