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mation on the mucous membrane of the nose, while 

 every other part of the body appears to be free 

 from the complaint. 



It is highly necessary you should distinguish 

 this disease from others that bear some resemblance 

 to it. Colds may be known by the eyes being 

 dull and watery, no appetite, and a cough, with 

 symptoms of fever, more or less severe ; a discharge 

 from both nostrils ; in glanders frequently only 

 from one ; the kernels sometimes swell, but they 

 are not so closely attached to the jaw-bone as in. 

 glanders ; neither are they so hot and inflamed ; 

 in glanders ulceration takes place, sooner or later ; 

 in colds, never, I believe. 



After some long-continued disease, that has 

 been brought on by hard labour, I have known the 

 windpipe, or lungs, become affected, and a whitish 

 matter tinged with yellow discharged from the 

 nostrils. This may be distinguished from glanders 

 by the preceding disease that has induced it, and 

 no ulceration existing in the nostrils : this affec- 

 tion soon yields to gentle mercurial physicking and 

 rest. In strangles the kernels swell to a larger 

 size than they do in glanders, and matter is soon 

 formed, which is evacuated either by bursting or 

 opening with a pen-knife, or lancet. There is also 



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