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cough be expected to do any but very light work or 

 exercise (every care being taken to avoid his being 

 chilled), bran mashes not affording sufficient sustenance 

 to do heavy work upon. 



No person or owner should be satisfied with the state 

 of his horses' health while they cough. Linseed mashes 

 daily (page 23) will be found excellent to ease and cure 

 cough, also carrots and green food ; but when the cough 

 is accompanied by fever, or other symptoms of ailment, 

 treat as for influenza, distemper, cold, or sore throat, as 

 the indications of derangement may direct you. 



Nasal Gleet may possibly be occasioned by protracted 

 irritation of diseased molar teeth ; but if persistent, 

 especially of a thin, ichorous, glairy, or size-like char- 

 acter, and confined to one nostril, generally the left, 

 the glands under the jaw being swollen and tender, the 

 Schneiderian membrane or mucous lining of the nose 

 having a dull, pale, or leaden hue, it should be looked 

 on with suspicion, particularly if confined to one nostril, 

 and more so if the discharge adhere round the rim of 

 it. Cough is seldom present with glanders. 



In such cases consult a veterinary surgeon without a 

 moment's delay, and be careful to prevent any part of 

 your own body, or that of any other person, coming in 

 contact with such a discharge. It is very probably in- 

 cipient glanders of the most insidious and dangerous 

 character. 



To more clearly distinguish the dangerous from the 

 harmless gleet, it may be remarked that when the dis- 

 charge is thick and purulent, yellow, and in full flow, 

 and without a disposition to adhere to the nostril, 

 though the most alarming in appearance, it is least to 

 be apprehended, proceeding naturally from a heavy 



