DISCHARGE FROM THE NOSE OF A HORSE. 161 
The treatment is simple. Take a pair of scissors and cut off the 
. worm-like appendage above the obstruction, and the urine will in¬ 
stantly flow, and continue flowing for a considerable time. In some 
cases I have taken or rather caught from five to six quarts. No 
bad consequences ensue from the excision, but the sheep quickly re¬ 
covers its w'onted vigour. This short paper may not be interesting 
to those who have been long in practice, but to him who is about 
to commence a country career I hope it may be of some good. 
[In page 41 of the January Number of The Veterinarian, in 
the paper of this gentleman on foot-rot, yb?' the solution of the 
bichloride or hydrochloric acid,” read “ a solution of bichloride 
of mercury in hydrochloric acid.”—Y.] 
A CASE OF DISCHARGE FROM THE NOSE OF A 
HORSE, SIMULATING GLANDERS. 
By Mr. Joseph Sewell, V.S., London. 
A VALUABLE chestnut hunter was sent for my opinion last Febru¬ 
ary, by John Be van. Esq., from the neighbourhood of Bedford. It 
was supposed to be glandered, having a considerable discharge from 
his off nostril, and the submaxillary gland being much enlarged. 
He had been in this state about six weeks. 
On inspecting my patient, I found that he had received a consi¬ 
derable contusion on the off-side frontal bone, which led me to con¬ 
clude the bone had been fractured, and that a small portion of the 
inner table was probably depressed, causing the discharge from the 
nostril by the process of exfoliation. I proposed cutting out a 
piece of bone over the injured part by the trephine, which was ac¬ 
ceded to. 
Having cast my patient, I proceeded to operate wdth an instru¬ 
ment one inch in diameter. After making an angular incision, and 
turning up a flap of integument, I pierced through the bone with 
the trephine, and two pieces of bone came out, shewing the exact 
line of fracture. A small splinter was then found hanging to the 
lining membrane of the frontal cavity. 
I closed the skin over the orifice until suppuration commenced, 
when tlie discharge somewhat increased; but by keeping the cavity 
washed and syringed with a weak solution of zinc, and, sometimes, 
tejhd alum-water, the parts gradually healed, and the discharge di¬ 
minished. In about five weeks my patient was perfectly recovered, 
and very little blemished. 
