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Almost any running, from whatever cause proceeding, 

 or however healthy the previous state of the animal's 

 system, causes the glands to enlarge and inflame ; after 

 a while, if remaining uncured, they usually adhere to the 

 bone, when alone we should pronounce the glanders 

 contagious and incurable. This is " the second species" 

 of La Fosse, which may be communicated to other hor- 

 ses, by contact, or by breathing the same air in the 

 same stable ; though it does not appear until eight or 

 ten days after the infection, in the enlargement of the 

 gland, accompanied by running. The third species is 

 caused by farcy being in the system ; the running at the 

 nose and swelling of the glands are then symptomatic 

 of farcy, and must be treated as such. What inference 

 is to be drawn from all those premises, but that we 

 should endeavor to ascertain the length of time the pa- 

 tient has been afflicted ; whether he has received any 

 external injury to cause it, or he has been in contact 

 with infected horses, and when? — and out of the an- 

 swers hereto, we form the resolution of condemning the 

 animal to solitary keeping, at least, and settling about 

 the remedies that are likely to restore him to health. — 

 Crowded towns, posting stables, and the like, are most 

 subject to contain glandered horses, on account of their 

 closeness, and the frequent succession of inmates to 

 which they are liable ; for some horses will bear it for a 

 good number of years, the discharge almost subsiding 

 (though the swelling of the glands remains,) upon chan- 

 ging to country quarters, or to a succession of regular 

 living and regular work. 



Symptoms. — No cough accompanies real glanders in 

 any of its stages ; and this though a negative piece of 

 information, shall be taken as a good and safe criterion 

 that must not be neglected ; a running may make its 

 appearance, as it does at the left nostril usually, in the 

 glanders, and the glands under the jaw may adhere to 

 the bone, as they do in real glanders, but no cough ac- 

 companies these symptoms of glanders. When cough 

 supervenes, the disease may be a catarrh, or a consump- 

 tion, the asthma, or strangles, but these are not conta- 

 gious, unless they last a long time, and adhesion of the 

 glands takes place : in these last mentioned disorders, 

 ihe discharge commonly pror.erds from both nostriU 



