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struction in the off nostril high up, and, by placing the ear over 
the right nasal cavity, you can readily ascertain that some obstruc¬ 
tion exists high up in the nostril. 
Jan. 14 th .—As I did not wish to run the risk of allowing the 
mare to mix with other horses, although 1 was fully satisfied the 
case was not glanders, but rather some disease of the turbinated 
bones, I recommended the mare either to be sold to Mr. Packwood, 
veterinary surgeon of Coventry, for £10, for further experiment, or 
else that she should be destroyed. 
The latter recommendation being more agreeable to the rules of 
the service, was adopted. Destroyed Jan. 31, 1848. 
Post-mortem appearances. — Chest: trachea and lungs perfectly 
healthy; abdominal viscera healthy. The membrane lining the off 
frontal sinus of the head was very much thickened, and of a deep 
red colour, but it contained no matter. The nasal sinuses were 
also free of matter, but exactly under the right nasal sinus, and at 
the top of the turbinated bone, was a large tumour filled with in¬ 
spissated pus. This tumour was contained in its own sac, and, 
although I carefully examined it before cutting into it, I could not 
detect any opening into the nasal cavity: it was about the size of 
a large pullet’s egg, and, on taking out the thickened pus (almost 
like soft cheese), I found an opening which led into the fauces, 
through which the matter had partially discharged itself. There 
was no appearance of ulceration of the Schneiderian membrane. 
These cases in the army are very troublesome, as we cannot get 
rid of the animal except by his destruction. 
Identity of Glanders in Man and the Horse. 
Whilst on the subject of glanders, I beg to name to you, that, 
when the 1 Lth Hussars were last quartered in Dublin, our surgeon, 
in conjunction with some of the most eminent medical men in that 
city, attended a policeman at one of the hospitals who died of 
glanders. The unfortunate man, it is supposed, took the infection 
from drinking out of a bucket which had been used by aglandered 
horse. Three days before this man’s death, a horse was purchased 
and was inoculated with the matter from the man. The horse 
shewed all the symptoms of acute glanders, of which he died. The 
man also died. Drawings were taken by an eminent artist of 
portions of the lungs of the man, and also of those of the horse, 
which shewed the most perfect similarity in the tubercles. Draw¬ 
ings were also made of the Schneiderian membrane of the man and 
the horse, shewing the identity of the ulceration. The man was 
also shewn as he lay dead, with the appearance of the pustules 
over the body : these pustules appeared to have a very marked 
