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Before his death, I was informed by his father that he had seen 
the horse snort out a quantity of this secretion into the middle of 
his son’s face. I examined the horse, which was stated to have 
been latterly improving in health. It was not much out of condi¬ 
tion, but had still a discharge from one nostril, and also some 
small hard tumours inside the lower jaw. It was considered by 
the farrier to have been for a long time decidedly affected with 
glanders. 
The young man had complained since Christmas of lassitude, 
and pain in the back and limbs, which he attributed to exposure 
to cold and wet. His voice likewise had been rather husky, and 
there had been some discharge from the nose, giving him what he 
called “ the snuffles.” 
It seems probable that the disease was communicated through 
the Schneiderian membrane, or perhaps through the conjunctiva; no 
Avound, abrasion, or local affection, indicating any other origin 
having been noticed by the patient or his friends. 
The discharge from the nostril, and the infiltration of the eye¬ 
lids, together with the irritative fever, were common to this case 
with all the others to the records of which I am able to refer. 
The absence of all pustular or tubercular affection of the skin is 
unusual, but analogous to what is commonly observed in the effects 
of wounds received in dissection. 
REMARKS ON UNSOUNDNESS. 
Bxj Mr. Joseph Carlisle, Wig ton. 
On perusing the last VETERINARIAN, my attention was drawn 
to an article headed “ Observations on Unsoundnesses not Named,” 
by Professor Stewart, of Glasgow. He commences with sprains 
of the extensor pedis of the hind leg, or rather the tendon, not the 
muscle. The learned Professor describes the seat of this disease 
to be midway between the hock and fetlock joints on the front of 
the leg. To the eye it has the appearance of being the effect of a 
blow; but this he says, on examination, is not the case: it is a 
swelling on the tendon produced from the knuckling of the pastern, 
I suppose forward ; but the modus operandi he has not defined. 
I have frequently met with this disease in my practice, both in 
the hind and fore legs. It is situated more towards the inferior 
parts of the metatarsal and metacarpal bones, a little superior to the 
expansion of the tendon extensor, and immediately under the strong 
ligamentous expansion that binds the tendon down to the bone. 
