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an absorption of the virus or poison, and as they exist 

 or do not exist, or as they adhere to the bone or are de- 

 tached from it, so some prognosis is vainly attempted by 

 farriers, with regard to the disease; for in some few 

 cases these glands are not at all affected, and in a great 

 many they are not bound down, by the affection, to the 

 jaw. As there are many diseases which excite a 

 secretion of matter from the nose, and which is kept up 

 a considerable time ; so it is not always easy to detect 

 glanders in its early stages. Strangles and violent colds 

 keep up a discharge from the nostrils for weeks some- 

 times. In such cases, a criterion may be drawn from 

 the existence of ulceration within the nose, whenever 

 the disease has become confirmed. These glanderous 

 chancres are to be seen on opening the nostril a little way 

 up the cavity, sometimes immediately opposed to the 

 opening of the nostril ; but a solitary chancre should not 

 determine the judgment. The health often continues 

 good, and sometimes the condition also, until hectic takes 

 place from absorption, and the lungs participate, when 

 death soon closes the scene. 



The following method is recommended as the best. 



Dissolve one pound of glauber salts in warm water, 

 set it in a bucket in his manger, and he will drink it; 

 take half a gallon of blood from his neck vein ; give a 

 mash of two quarts of wheat bran scalded with sassafras 

 tea, after which offer him lukewarm water, to drink, 

 and do not suffer him to drink any other kind for that 

 day ; next morning take the same quantity of blood as 

 before, give a mash as before, with the addition of half 

 an ounce of saltpetre dissolved in it ; let his food be wet, 

 and of- a weak kind — a run at grass after the first two 

 days would be of service. 



The farcy is a disease more easily cured than the 



