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intention, but from accident ; for, supposing a 

 glandered Horse to have stood in a stall, and 

 some of the matter from his nostrils may 

 hang about the manger, and a fiesh Horse 

 coming into that stall, and may by its strange- 

 ness be smelling about, and any rough sub- 

 stance that he may come in contact with, 

 occasions an abrasion of the skin, and then 

 this abrasion touching the poisoned matter of 

 glanders, the Horse will decidedly become 

 affected. 



But, in a general way, close unwholesome 

 stables, hard work, and bad provender, 

 sudden changes from cold and wet weather 

 to hot stables ; in short, any thing that will 

 weaken the animal considerably, is likely to 

 produce glanders and farcy. There will be no 

 longer any danger in admitting this opinion, if 

 at the same time we keep in view the con- 

 tagious nature of the disorder, in whatever 

 manner it may be produced. For, if such 

 cruel and foolish treatment of Horses does not 

 produce glanders or farcy, it produces other 

 disorders which are often more speedily fatal 

 than glanders ; and if it does not actually 

 produce a disorder, it weakens the constitu- 

 tion in such a degree that the animal is 

 rendered more susceptible of the contagion of 

 glanders, as well as of other diseases. It is 

 from this cause, that glanders spread so ra- 

 pidly among post and coach-horses ; while 

 among Horses of a different description, its 

 progress is generally slow. 



Some writers have said that glanders lias 

 often been produced in the cavalry, by putting 

 the Horses immediately after coming from 

 camp, where they are constantly exposed to 

 the weather, into warm stables, and giving 

 them full allowance of oats. This, it is true, 

 has often brought on inflammation, and inflam- 



matory disorders of several descriptions, which 

 were very destructive, and those principally of 

 the catarrhal kind, in which cases they were 

 accompanied with a discharge from the nos- 

 trils. The acrimony of the matter would 

 sometimes even ulcerate the nostrils, and the 

 disease would then be considered as a decided 

 case of glanders. Frequently I have known 

 the distemper, or epidemic catarrh, produce 

 this effect. 



Having said thus much of glanders, I shall 

 endeavour to describe the symptoms ; in doing 

 which I shall endeavour to be as concise as 

 possible : — The first symptom is generally a 

 discharge of glairy matter, from one or both 

 nostrils ; principally, or generally from one 

 only, and more frequently from the left than 

 from the right nostril ; a swelling of the sub- 

 maxilliary glands, or kernels between the jaw, 

 and generally on the side of the jaw corres- 

 ponding with the affected nostril, and fre- 

 quently attended with cough ; the membrane 

 of the nose, especially that covering the carti- 

 laginous part, or septum, becomes ulcerated, 

 and this from the fineness of its texture, and 

 the many small blood-vessels distributed 

 thereon ; it in consequence becomes more sus- 

 ceptible of the disease, and especially in its 

 acute form. 



Sometimes, however, glanders is accom- 

 panied by a disorder of the superficial absorb- 

 ents of the skin, named farcy. Farcy has 

 been considered by many authors as a distinct 

 disorder, I have therefore noticed it in a sepa- 

 rate article, {See Farcy,) though I am of 

 opinion that it is always a symptom of glan- 

 ders, whether it appears in a local or a consti- 

 tutional form. 



Glanders is divided into two stages, the 

 acute and the chronic ; or the first and secoud 



