INOCULATION OF A MAN BY NASAL DISCHARGE OF A HORSE. 721 
geon for several months, without much benefit, placed himself 
under the care of Dr. Farrand, of Detroit, who, on the occa¬ 
sion of my recently making a professional visit to one of his 
horses, kindly gave me a short verbal description of the case. 
The doctor lanced the abscess in the lymphatic glands of 
the armpit, applied a lotion of sulphate of zinc, two grains to 
the ounce of water, and gave bichloride of mercury and 
iodide of potassium internally. The man was also put on 
rather a stimulating regimen, as he had been used to drink 
freely, and under this treatment he recovered in about six 
months. 
Mr. Williams’ horse, which was driven with that of the 
hackman, did not contract any disease, but a valuable gray 
mare about this time became affected with a nasal discharge, 
showing symptoms similar to those of the hackman’s horse, 
who, until Mr. Williams consulted me, had kept his horses 
in the same stable. This mare was placed under a tonic 
course of treatment, combined with the daily use of Key’s 
nasal tube, but without success. The owner objected to 
trephining, which I proposed, and the mare was disposed 
of som etime afterwards. 
A month or two subsequently I was called by Mr. Williams 
to examine another mare. In this case the symptoms were 
similar to those of the hackman’s horse, with the exception 
that in a few days an eruption appeared on the quarters; the 
eruption consisted of six or seven small lumps about an inch in 
diameter : they showed no tendency to ulceration. In about 
ten days from the first appearance of sickness I observed that 
the Schneiderian membrane was assuming a very unhealthy 
appearance, and shortly after an ulcer formed on the mem¬ 
brane. As this case in my estimation was a hopeless one, 
and as it was also dangerous to have such a case in a large 
stable, it shortly afterwards passed from under my care. I 
declined to take a case of glanders to my own stable, and she 
was taken to that of another practitioner, but as she kept 
constantly growing worse she was destroyed. 
There is a disease (in my experience occurring at all times 
of the year) which here is called distemper, but which, to 
speak with more precision, might be defined as an inflamma¬ 
tion of the mucous membrane of the respiratory passages. 
This affection is indicated by discharge from the eyes and 
nose, soreness of the throat, loss of appetite and swelling of 
the submaxillary glands, in which abscesses sometimes form. 
In many cases horses affected with this disease recover with¬ 
out treatment, and continue to work as usual. In other 
pases, however, the disease is more severe, and is character- 
