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best evinced, by his apparent desire to drink, attended witii inability 

 to gratify his thirst, without stopping at every gulp of fluid, which 

 he takes. 



Further, I have, not unfrequently, found persons unnecessarily 

 alarmed, on the score of Glanders, from observing a discharge that 

 commonly takes place from the nose, Avhen a Horse is becoming 

 broken-winded. But, this discharge is unaccompanied with any en- 

 largement of the Glands under the jaw, and has, besides, a specific 

 appearance, resembling nothing so much, as thick soap-suds. 



I have thus enumerated some common complaints, which have 

 been usually confounded with the Glanders, from which, it will not 

 be very difficult to distinguish them, provided the symptoms I have 

 described, be carefully attended to. I come now, to treat on the 

 means of prevention, and also of such as bid fairest to effect the cure 

 of this malady. And it would be equally fortunate for the public, 

 as honorable to the Veterinary art, if it were in my power, to speak 

 as decisively on the subject of the latter, as I am enabled to do on 

 the former topic. But, as prevention is better than remedy, so, I 

 am not without hopes, that the following remarks may be found use- 

 ful to the proprietors of Horses. As one of the most effectual 

 means, of preventing the Glanders being generated in stables, it 

 will be necessary to keep them constantly cool and well ventilated, 

 as no fact is more certain, than that the hot and foul air of low and 

 confined stables, is the chief exciting cause of the disease. It is 

 perhaps, indeed, the only one, which is able singly and without the 

 intervention of any other, to originate the disease in the system of 

 a sound Horse. Next to hot and foul air, as exciting a disposition to 

 Glanders, 1 consider the vvaat of regular exercise, which is the com- 



