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the truth of his practical remark, that '' few or no cases com- 

 menced without it," but likewise convinced me that even those 

 cases of sub-acute disease which appeared completely to regain 

 their health and spirits, were not, on closer examination, left alto- 

 gether free from this febrile state of system. In general, after the 

 first stage is passed, as soon as the discharges from the nose 

 have become established, the animal rallies from any indispo- 

 sition he may have shewn, recovers his spirits and appetite, and, 

 to the common observer, appears as well as ever. This manifes- 

 tation of recovery has led unprofessional persons to suppose that, 

 were it not for "the running at the nose," and "the kernels," 

 there would be little or nothing the matter with the horse : in all 

 other respects he is regarded as being in sound and good health, 

 and to such persons as have not seen him during the attack of the 

 glanders, or whose observation has not been sufficient to enable 

 them to detect any difference in him at that time, he has never 

 appeared otherwise than in his usual state of health : hence the 

 prevalence of the common notion, that glandered horses can do 

 work the same as others; and, indeed, such is for a time the trifling 

 constitutional derangement occasioned by the disease that they, in 

 reality, are capable of work — though, still, not of the severest kind — 

 so long as the disease in the head continues either in the sub-acute 

 or chronic form, and the lungs hold their integrity. The preserva- 

 tion of their condition, and the good looks glandered horses for a 

 time maintain, it is also that, when artful means are taken to con- 

 ceal the nasal discharge and the tumours under the throat, enable 

 sharpers to dispose of them as sound horses. In fine, one of the 

 characteristic symptoms of the disease, in certain stages, is the 

 unaffected good spirits and condition) and feelings of health, the 

 animal manifestly enjoys. 



Leblanc confirms the foregoing observations. " I have uni- 

 formly observed," says he, " that horses exposed to causes con- 

 sidered as productive of glanders have exhibited some symptoms 

 of general functional disorder prior to the manifestation of the 

 malady;" adding, that "horses that become glandered and farcied 

 without this premonitory disorder, derive the disease from con- 

 tagioiiy Should this latter remark prove well founded, it might 



