INOCULATION OP A MAN RY NASAL DISCHARGE OF A HORSE. 719 
aged cow, almost reduced to a skeleton from the effect of 
rheumatic fever. She had not been able to get on her legs 
for some three weeks when I was called in. 
On examination, I found this a case of hard stricture, the 
worst case I had ever met with, there being no less than 
six transverse hardened bands, each completely encircling 
the cervix uteri. The os uteri was also firmly rigid. I 
found it utterly impossible to complete the incisive operation 
in this case ; and only succeeded in cutting through three of the 
transverse rugse or hardened bands; and as the cow was evi¬ 
dently a worthless subject, and there being no doubt as to 
the foetus being alive, I proposed performing the Caesarean 
operation in order to save the life of the calf. 
The owner at once consented, and seemed highly delighted 
with the calf, which was alive and ultimately did well. The 
cow was killed immediately after the operation. 
Deposits of a fibrinous nature .are hut too common in 
patients of rheumatic constitution, and it seems very pro¬ 
bable that it is to this fact we owe the extreme severity 
observable in this last case; at any rate, the coincidence is 
worthy of note. 
Remarks .—The only difficulty in cases of stricture of os 
and cervix uteri, likely at first to occur to the practitioner, 
is the distinguishing of them from simple spasm of the parts. 
The previous history of the case will in a great measure lessen 
this difficulty; then it may be possible to make an ocular 
examination of the parts; and, finally, to one practically ex¬ 
perienced mere manual exploration will almost settle the 
doubt, if doubt there be. 
In any case, however, rather than lose my patient, I 
would have recourse to a free use of the knife. 
INOCULATION OF A MAN WITH THE 
CHRONIC NASAL DISCHARGE OF A HORSE. 
By A. J. Murray, M.R.C.Y.S., Detroit, Michigan, U.S. 
On the 8th of July, 1867, I was requested by Mr. E. 
Williams, livery stable keeper, in Detroit, to examine a bay 
carriage horse which had been turned out to grass about eight 
miles from Detroit. On arriving at my destination I examined 
the horse, and found the submaxillary glands considerably 
enlarged, but not indurated ; there was also a discharge of 
yellow fluid from both nostrils; the nasal membrane was a 
