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and sometimes continues in this doubtful stage 

 for several weeks or months. Instances are 

 indeed known where it has existed for several 

 years before it became fully developed. In such 

 cases it is attended with no loss of appetite, no 

 cough, or apparent illness of any kind, with little 

 enlargement of the glands under the jaw, and 

 at the same time the horse is capable of com- 

 municating disease. 



Too many of these horses, with a decided 

 glanderous discharge from the nose and adherent 

 glands under the jaw, are found on our roads, 

 or are employed in agriculture, which (although 

 they are otherwise in good health, and perform 

 their work well) should not be permitted ; for 

 by such means the contagion is widely spread. 

 No cough accompanies real glanders in any of 

 its stages, except the last, which is usually soon 

 cut short by death. 



In addition to the preceding tokens for dis- 

 covering at an early period the true glanders 

 from other disorders, let the nostrils be closely 

 examined. In the real glanders, the left or 



