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coat becomes also harsh, dry, and altogether 

 unthrifty. As the disease advances, I have 

 always distinguished a peculiar smell about 

 such a Horse, both from his skin and his du ng. 

 At length the appetite becomes affected, 

 and pus, mixed with mucous, is observed to 

 be passed from the nostrils, which in the lattei' 

 stages is mixed with lots of coagulie ; which 

 escape by the mouth also, as well as the nose, 

 in the act of coughing. In the still more ad- 

 vanced stages, the discharge increases, and is 

 attended with an exceedingly disagreeable 

 smell ; the hair falls off in patches, the body 

 wastes, and the complaint either degenerates 

 into farcy, or glanders ; or the animal sinks 

 under the disease itself. If a Horse be df" 

 stroyed in the early stages, the tubercles 



appear like knots, or kernels, uisperseu ihroujgrt 

 the substance of the lungs ; they are some- 

 times smaller, or larger, as the case may be ; 

 mostly darker, but sometimes lighter than the 

 surrounding substance. In later stages these 

 are found degenerated into abscesses, and 

 terminating with universal ulceration. When 

 Horses are opened at this point of the disease, 

 they are said to be rotten. 



Horses affected with this disease, may do a 

 considerable deal of work, such as slow draft 

 worJc ; with occasionally giving him one of 

 the restorative balls (which see in the list of 

 medicines) ; but a perfect cure is impossible ; 

 palliatives being the only remedies that can 

 be made use of. 



