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toms very similar to the glanders. Sometimes the 

 strangles are confounded with it : the cough, the 

 fever, and other usual incidents to a cold, will point 

 out the difference to a scientific man, and in the 

 strangles the rapid suppuration of the glandular 

 swellings, is a symptom which is wanting in the 

 glanders. Neither a cold nor the strangles is a very 

 alarming complaint ; it would therefore be well, be- 

 fore you sacrifice your horse, to assure yourself by 

 good professional information, that your suspicions 

 are well founded ; but it is a wise precaution to sepa- 

 rate the animal from others, as soon as ever a decided 

 discharge from the nostrils is detected. 



It has been said, and I believe with truth, that it 

 is a peculiarity of the glanders, always to show itself 

 on the near jaw. I have not had sufficient expe- 

 rience of the disease, to feel assured of the safety 

 of this diagnostic : but the idea is so prevalent, that I 

 do not like to omit mentioning it. There is another 

 circumstance connected with the glanders, that it is 

 of the last importance to notice. The human frame 

 is susceptible of the contagion — a point long disputed 

 by pathologists, though why a doubt should exist is 

 not very obvious; besides the well-known case of 



