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CASE OF SUSPECTED GLANDERS. 
By Mr. Watt, James’s Place , Edinburgh . 
ON the 8th of August, 1828, I was called to examine a bay car 
horse, the property of Mr. H-, Camion Mills, which he hat 
purchased two days before at Lanark Fair, from a horse-dealer 
for £20. The animal had not been in his possession half an horn 
when he was informed by several persons that he had purchase! 
a glandered horse; that they had known him to be so for a con 
siderable time and that, for the last twelve months, he had beer 
bought and sold for various sums, from £5 to £30, at the differen 
markets in West Lothian, according as the persons into whos' 
hands he happened to fall could manage to cheat a purchaser 
On receiving this information, he began to inquire after the deale 
who sold him the horse, but in vain; he had fled from th 
market to avoid detection. Finding he had little prospect o' 
recovering his money, he exposed him for sale, but was onl; 
offered £3 for him. Under these circumstances, he considered i 
better to bring him to Edinburgh, and try if he could obtain : 
cure. During the journey from Lanark to Edinburgh, th 
opinion of the farriers and horse dealers on the road, all of whon 
were consulted, was, that the horse was decidedly glandered 
When I saw him there was a considerable discharge of rather : 
curdled like matter from the off nostril, with enlargement of th 
submaxillary lymphatic gland of the same side, but no ulceratioi i 
of the Schneiderian membrane. From these symptons, it occurrec i 
to me that this was one of those cases which I had heard Mi 
Dick describe in his lectures, which is mistaken for glanders 
but which is, in fact, only a cyst of matter formed in one or othe I 
of the sinuses of the nose. I therefore directed the horse t< 
be brought back for examination in eight days, when Mr. Did i 
(of whose advice I wished to avail myself) attended at nr 
request, and coincided with me in opinion, that a cyst had form© 
in one of the nasal sinuses, and that it was not glanders, as ha< 
been before supposed. It was, therefore, proposed to the owner 
to make a perforation through the nasal bone, and lay open th 
sinus, to which he immediately agreed, as, to use his own words] 
we were either to kill or cure. Having laid the integument i 
aside, a perforation was made into the nasal sinus, one inch ani i 
a half from the inner canthus of the eye, and about an inch ii i 
diameter, with a trephine. When the instrument was withdrawn i 
there escaped from the perforation about half a pint of thicl 
