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covered with ulcerations characteristic of acute glanders mixed 
with some having a more chronic character. 
Case 2.— Fracture of the Lower Maxillary Bone—Chronic 
Glanders. On the 14th of June a grey mare well advanced in 
years, belonging to a trunk establishment, was brought under my 
observation. 
About a month before, a black horse belonging to the same 
firm had been condemned for glanders. Her history is incomplete. 
She is said to have been first observed that morning with the 
lesion which she presented. She then showed a punctured wound 
on the left cheek, at the maxillary tuberosity, measuring about 
one inch and a half in length on the outside, and quite dry. On 
introducing the linger into the puncture, a number of pieces 
of bone could be felt, some loose, others adherent to the torn 
muscles. The pus, which flowed freely, was quite good in char¬ 
acter. The hand, resting on the upper part of the flat of the 
cheek a little below the temporo-maxillary articulation, received 
the sensation of crepitition when the jaws were put in motion, as 
by the introduction of the finger in the mouth and the tickling 
of the palate. The lymphatic glands of the maxillary space were 
not swollen. There was no discharge from the nose. The mare 
ate well and seemed not to suffer from her injury. Her temper¬ 
ature was above the normal and remained so during the whole 
duration of her sickness, varying between 102° and 103°. 
The treatment consisted in the removal of all the loose pieces 
of bone and the cutting away of those that were adherent to the 
muscles. The wound was dressed with carbolized dressings. 
Every thing went on well, the wound became smaller, the dis¬ 
charge improved, the wound was much reduced in size, the ani¬ 
mal fed well, until the 29th, when at my morning visit she was 
found breathing with difficulty and discharging from the nostrils ; 
the glands had become swollen, and ulcerations had made their 
appearance on the septum nasi. She was immediately destroyed. 
At the post-mortem, besides the lesions of chronic glanders 
found in the iiead, the inferior maxillary was found fractured. 
The injury of the jaw was as follows: A large piece of the max¬ 
illary was removed, involving the whole thickness of the maxillary 
