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have become constitutionally affected. His coat will stare 

 and fall off; he will lose flesh, and his belly will be tucked 

 up ; cough will follow ; the appetite will be much affected, 

 accompanied by a rapid diminution of strength ; the tubercles 

 will multiply ; discharge will be much more abundant, and 

 will assume a purulent and bloody appearance, accompanied 

 with a very foetid smell. The ulceration will extend down 

 the windpipe, and the lungs will be in a very short time 

 studded with tubercles. A test of the lungs having become 

 affected, the breathing will be difi^icult, and a stifled, 

 grating noise accompanies it, which is a certain prelude to 

 death. 



A common catarrh has often been mistaken for glanders ; 

 but a little attention will soon enable any one to perceive 

 the distinction between those diseases. Catarrh is invariably 

 accompanied by fever, sore throat, generally cough, loss of 

 appetite, and a discharge from both nostrils, and, in most 

 cases, very copious ; sometimes purulent ; the glands are 

 generally swollen in both sides of the throat, are moveable 

 and hot to the touch. The proper means being adopted, 

 all the symptoms are abated. Strangles have also been mis- 

 taken for glanders. This disease usually affects young horses 

 only. At first they resemble a common cold, with a severe 

 cough and wheezing, and accompanied with a considerable 

 thickening and swelling between the jawbones. The swell- 

 ings become harder towards the middle, and a fluid can be 

 felt in their centre, which ultimately breaks, and a discharge 

 flows from it. The mucous membrane of the nostrils is of a 

 vivid red colour ; and an ample discharge continues, which 

 is mixed with pus from nearly the commencement. 



The remote cause of glanders has hitherto baffled all the 

 members of the veterinary art : its true history being still 

 uu^known, and the unsatisfactory theories of medical authors 



