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of the disease, for we cannot believe that any man ii telligent 

 enough to read this book, will allow it to go on after it is once 

 discovered. 



Diseases of the Glands and Nasal Membranes. Gland- 

 ers is a fearful disorder, bred by filth, and spread by conta- 

 gion. It is found mostly in the close, filthy, ill ventilated 

 stables of the city, where impure air, water, and food, are 

 more coniaton. From these it is transferred to the farmer's 

 stables by various means. Horses purchased in the city and 

 tjansferred to the country, carry the infection with them. The 

 Hirmer's horse, put up at the city stable when he goes to market, 

 or to court, contracts the affection. Eating, or drinking, after 

 glandered horses, is often sufficient to transmit it. The snort of 

 one horse to another will sometimes carry the infection even at 

 a distance of several yards. The symptoms are running of one 

 nostril, in nine cases out of ten the left; the fluid thin and 

 transparent ; it increases, grows thicker, and more sticky ; its 

 color changes towards yellow ; it becomes clotted with mucus, 

 and long sticky white threads of mucus hang to the nostrils. 

 This soon changes to a stream of filthy j9z<5, thicker, darker, and 

 sonietitnes bloody. These are the first two and curable stages 

 of the disorder. It is readily distinguished from other secretions 

 running from the nose by its gluemess or stickiness, and in the 

 second stage by its sickening smell. During these early stages 

 of glanders, the horse loses flesh, the air passages are affected, 

 the breathing becomes difficult, the glands swell, ulcers form in 

 the nostrils, and the discharge, which was only from one nostril, 

 extends to both, and sometimes to the eye. A gland adheres 

 to the inside of the jaw; the nostril changes color and becomes 

 pallid. As a consequence of this state of things the horse loses 

 his spirits, appetite fails, the coat stares and is easily rubbed off, 

 and the horse rapidly goes down. Unless taken now a cure is 



