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perfectly sound. On the Schneiderian membrane covering the 
septum and turbinated bones there were spots of ecchymosis, but 
no ulcerations; and within the turbinated bones was a considerable 
quantity of muco-purulent matter. This would have been called 
glanders by many veterinary practitioners, but he could never 
understand that this horse had been infected by any other, or 
had communicated disease to any other. He could not conceive 
how we were to decide so promptly on cases of this description. 
He conceived the enlargement of the glands to be merely a sym¬ 
pathetic affection. Ulcers connected with glanders are not 
always accompanied by enlarged glands. Ulcers that have no 
connection with glanders, are occasionally found with the sub¬ 
maxillary glands very much tumefied. He was at a loss to know 
how we were always to decide in such cases. He had no doubt 
that many of the horses that had been supposed to have been 
cured of glanders at the Veterinary College, and elsewhere, were 
not really glandered. The continental writers declared glanders 
to be incurable, and they were not disposed to consider it as in¬ 
fectious. He knew well that horses might long stand and work 
together without catching the complaint, and he did not under¬ 
stand how any one could foresee or prognosticate an attack of 
glanders. 
Mr. Henderson observed, that enlargement of the submaxillary 
glands would arise from many causes independent of glanders. 
Mr. Turner asked whether Mr. Goodwin had examined the 
frontal and maxillary sinuses, and whether the breath on the side 
from which there was discharge was offensive. 
Mr. Goodwin .—The breath was very offensive, but the frontal 
sinuses were not affected. He had suspected that it was a dis¬ 
ease of the frontal sinuses, and he had examined them very care¬ 
fully. 
Mr. Field imagined that this could not be a case of glanders ; 
the offensive smell was tolerably satisfactory proof of this. 
Mr. Turner agreed with this as a general rule, and yet as one 
that had many exceptions. In the last stage of glanders, and 
glanders combined with farcy, the breath was exceedingly offensive. 
Mr. Goodwin had seen many cases in which the breath was 
sometimes offensive, and at other times not so. He asked why the 
breath should be offensive in other cases, and not in glanders ? 
Mr. Field said that, in diseases of the sinuses of the head, the 
discharge was much thicker than in glanders ; sometimes of a 
bright yellow colour, and offensive—offensive, because it lodged 
in large quantities in the sinuses. The access of air to pus in ca¬ 
vities rendered it offensive; therefore there was offensive discharge 
and offensive breath, so much so, that the owner, even sitting in 
