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wfll have ample proof whether your judgment 

 was correct or not. I recomrnend this plan, 

 because a valuable Horse may be preserved 

 at the expenceof a few shillings, whereas if a 

 cure was performed by medicine, which is 

 always expensive, and the Horse not (in all 

 probabihty) worth it ; consequently, it would 

 at once be advisable to have him destroyed. 

 If the matter be really glanderous, a pecu- 

 liar kind of sore or chancre will be produced. 

 From this ulcer, corded veins, as they are 

 termed, will proceed, and farcy-buds, or small 

 tumours will take place. In about a week 

 the animal will run at the nose, and in a 

 short time, put on all the appearance of com- 

 plete glanders. 



In these cases, the disease is always very 

 rapid, and always proves fatal. If the matter 

 be not glanderous, no effect will be produced 

 by it. In large establishments where many 

 Horses are kept, this will be found a valuable 

 test for determining with certainty the nature 

 of a discharge from the nostrils. However 

 mild the glanders might be, and although 

 ulceration of the nostrils cannot be seen, and 

 the quantity of matter be small that may be 

 discharged, and the animal appear in good 

 health and condition, the ass will be as cer- 

 tainly affected by the matter, as if the disease 

 were in the Idst stagOj oi" in its most virulent 

 degree. 



As this work, in all probability, may fall 

 into the hands of gentlemen and agricultu- 

 rists, that may be at some considerable dis- 

 tance from a regular veterinary surgeon, I will 

 describe the method of performing the opera- 

 tion of inoculation. 



Cut off a little hair from the inside of the 

 fore les^, where you can feel the vein (I prefer 

 this place, because I have found the pcison act 



quicker there than in any other place, it being 

 immediately on a large vein, the communica- 

 tion of the poison with the system being more 

 expeditious,) for the space of half-a-crown ; 

 then take a lancet, and introduce it under the 

 skin, for about three quarters of an inch in 

 length. The orifice must be wiped free from 

 the few drops of blood that may have made 

 their appearance. Have your lint or tow 

 ready that has first been well impregnated with 

 the glandered matter, and introduce it into 

 the opening with a probe, or small slip of 

 wood. This being done, make a small wad- 

 ding of tow, and place over all. Apply a 

 bandage to the part to keep in the lint, and 

 let it remain for a few days, and you will soon 

 see the result. 



If the matter be glanderous, the part will 

 become excessively sore in about two days, 

 and a scab will form on it, which in a few 

 days will be thrown off, leaving a peculiar 

 kind of ulcer, which will often spread rapidly, 

 causing a painful swelling of the adjacent 

 parts, with corded veins, or farcy-buds. After 

 this, glanders will soon appear. No other 

 matter will produce this effect, shewino- at 

 once the nature of the disease. 



When colts are kept at grass, as they 

 generally are until three or four years old, 

 they will have passed through a disease, by 

 which the whole constitution appears to be 

 depurated, and consequently becomes invigo- 

 rated. This is the disease called strangles; 

 and most frequently occurs when colts are 

 kept on poor pasture, debilitating the animal 

 so much, that it frequently degenerates into 

 glanders. While the colt is at grass, and 

 kept well, it generally goes through its course 

 without much inconvenience to the animal, 

 and without requiring the interference of art ; 



