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lungs will be in a very short time studded with 

 tubercles, a test that the lungs have become affected ; 

 the breathing will be difficult, and a stifled grating 

 noise accompanies it, which is a certain prelude to death. 

 A common catarrah has often been mistaken for 

 glanders, but a little attention will soon enable any 

 one to perceive the distinction between the two diseases. 

 Catarrh is usually accompanied with fever, sore throat, 

 general cough, loss of appetite, and a discharge from both 

 nostrils, and in most cases very copious, sometimes 

 purulent; the glands are generally swollen on both sides 

 of the throat, and are moveable and hot to the touch. 

 The proper means being adopted all the symptoms are 

 abated. 



Strangles have also been mistaken for glanders, and 

 usually affects young horses only. At first they resemble 

 a comon cold with a severe cough and wheezing, accom- 

 panied with considerable thickening and swelling between 

 the jawbones, the swelling becoming harder towards the 

 middle, a fluid can be felt in the centre, which ultimately 

 breaks, and a discharge flows from it. The mucous- 

 membrane of the nostrils is of a very red colour, and an 

 ample discharge continues which is mixed with pus from 

 nearly the commencement. The remote cause of 

 glanders has hitherto baffled all the members of the 

 veterinary art, its true history being still unknown, and 

 the unsatisfactory theories of medical authors throwing 

 no light on it. All that can be gained by the perusal of 

 numerous works upon this disease by past and present 

 authors is that the disease is highly contagious. All 

 authors agree as to the symptoms, and but little differ- 



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