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characteristic distinctions between this disease and g^me others, whicli 

 resi^mblc it in many of their symptoms. 



The Glanders is more frequently confounded with Strangles, than 

 any other disease. But, in general, it may readily enough be dis- 

 tinguished from the latter ; the Glanders being rarely atteiided 

 with any general fever, heat of the skin, or loss of appetite, all of 

 which symptoms are, more or less, present in the Strangles, The 

 swellings of the glands, too, under the jaw, are in Glanders, most 

 commonly hard, small, indolent, circumscribed, and nearly immove- 

 able, appearing to grow, as it were, to the bone. 



Whereas, in the Strangles, the Glandular swellings are large, 

 attended with heal, and painful to the touch, and may be observed 

 to enrease gradually, until they arrive at the state of suppuration, 

 vhich never takes place in Glanders. 



Moreover, there is seldom in Glanders, a cough of any conse- 

 quence, much less any considerable wheezing, or obstruction in the 

 act of swallowing. In the Strangles, all the last mentioned symp- 

 toms, are strongly characteristic of the disease. Again, in the 

 Glanders, the discharge from the nose is most commonly confined to 

 one nostril, and is small in quantity, exhibiting at the verge, a pe- 

 culiar glewy appearance. In the Strangles, the discharge is purulent, 

 usually very profuse, of a yellowish colour, and, for the most part, 

 flows pretty equally, from both nostrils. Finally, in Glanders, 

 ulcers are very often observed, on the internal membrane of the 

 nose, whidi, rarely, exliibits any redness, or signs of inflammation; 

 but, on the contrary, has usually, either a palish, duskish-brown, or 

 livid colour. In the Strangles, we meet with considerable redness., 

 and inflammation, but no ulceration, on the raucous membrane of th« 



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