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glutinous in its substance. If rubbed between the finger 

 and thumb it has a sticky feel. This discharge also 

 differs from common cold by being continuous, 

 whereas in the latter it is only discharged at intervals. 

 The matter discharged in this disease differs from that of 

 a common catarrh in its specific gravity. If a small 

 quantity is dropped into water it sinks, and it will not 

 mix with water if stirred with it ; whereas the mucous 

 discharge of a common cold swims near the surface, and 

 preserves its slimy consistence although stirred, and will 

 not comingle with it. 



A singular character of the glanders is that it always 

 attacks the left nostril, very few cases having ever been 

 seen in which the horse was glandered in the right 

 nostril. Mr. Dupay, a celebrated veterinary surgeon and 

 director of the School of Surgery at Toulouse, mentions 

 that out of eight hundred cases of glanders which came 

 under his care during his practice, only one was affected 

 in the right nostril. Shortly after the discharge from the 

 nostril takes place, the horse becomes affected in the 

 glands of the lower jaw, which swell to a considerable 

 extent, and ultimately become attached to the bone. 

 Another character by which this disease is well known 

 is, that at no time is the discharge from the nostrils ac- 

 companied by a cough. Some considerable time after the 

 discharge has made its appearance, the gluey substances 

 will be seen accompanying the mucous discharge. It is 

 this pus, mingling with the other gluey matter, which, 

 absorbed by the circulating vessels and carried to the 

 gland, affects it. However, in common cold the gland is 

 sometimes swelled, but in the real glanders the swell- 



