PSEUDO-GLANDERS SUCCESSFULLY TREATED. 519 
they drove at producing farcy and glanders among his 
stock, he lost, in little more than a year, one hundred horses, 
(see his letter.) I went to examine his racing stock, and con¬ 
demned two breeding mares, (one of them the dam of this 
my present subject), besides which several others were sus¬ 
picious. Wizgig, by Wintonian, dam by Malek, &c., my 
patient with the swayed back, 1 found in a very bad state. 
She had a discharge from the near nostril, which had con¬ 
tinued from a year old,—she being then five. The sub¬ 
maxillary gland was firmly adhering to the bone, and though 
1 had not known anything about former suspicious circum¬ 
stances, I should certainly have been of opinion she had 
confirmed glanders. Her owner was of the same opinion; 
but as she was strong and good, he was determined to take 
all out of her he could, had not a misfortune stopped her or 
his career; and as it was likely she would be confined for a 
considerable time, it was an opportunity I could not afford 
to lose, to recommend an operation. To this he at once 
consented, and I appointed a day to meet him for that pur¬ 
pose. On removing the piece of bone from the maxillary 
sinus, I found it filled with spongy bone, the interstices of 
which were full of matter. I had some difficulty in making 
a free opening into the frontal sinus, but when this was 
accomplished, I found it also filled with matter. The treat¬ 
ment in this case was similar to the others, only in syringing 
out the sinuses I used a mixture of creasote, jiv, with rape 
oil, ^xviij. The spine at the same time was repeatedly blis¬ 
tered, and in two months she was well enough to admit of 
being taken home. Twice I had to open the wounds—not 
that I thought it was absolutely necessary, but did it to 
make the cure more sure; and after they were allowed to fill 
up, no discharge ever again took place from the nose, and the 
mare remained in every respect perfectly sound and healthy. 
She was sold about twelve months ago to Mr. Patterson, 
banker and tanner, here. She has been used during the last 
winter working in his bark-mill (being in foal to one of His 
Grace the Duke of Buccleugh’s thorough-bred horses), she is 
now at grass with a fine colt foal by her side. 
I may state, that I have never cast one horse for operation 
since the first (Mr. Blakie’s). I can operate quite well stand¬ 
ing, with a twitch on. I sent my trephine on request, with 
instructions, to an acquaintance, Mr. Granger, veterinary 
surgeon, Girvan, Ayrshire, to operate on a horse that had 
been treated by some veterinary surgeons there, for some 
time, for glanders. He operated on the animal, and wrote to 
me afterwards, saying the horse did uncommonly well. 
