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l.lie disease conlined to the near side of the nasal cavity, nineteen 

 to the off side, and eighteen have shewn it in both sides. My own 

 experience, therefore, will not allow me to step out of my road — as 

 some writers have done — to endeavour to account for a fact whose 

 truth is by no means confirmed, and which, were there any truth in 

 it, must be admitted to be of that extraordinary pathological cha- 

 racter that seems to defy all attempts at explanation. 



DIAGNOSIS OF GLANDERS. 



The diseases with which glanders is liable to be confounded or 

 for which it may be mistaken are, catarrh, nasal gleet, and 

 strajigles. 



The Characteristic Signs of Glanders are with sins^ular 

 accuracy, and with succinctness too, described by Solleysell*. 

 "The signs by which the disease may be known, are when a horse, 

 already too old to be troubled with strangles, without a cough, 

 voids matter by the nose, and has a kernel sticking to the bone ; 

 and besides, in glanders the matter usually flows from one nostril, 

 whereas in a cold it runs almost always out of both." — " Some 

 cast the matter that is voided by the nostrils into water, and, if it 

 swim on the top, they conclude the horse to be free of this dis- 

 temper ; but if it sink to the bottom, it is a sign of glanders : the 

 principal use of this experiment being to distinguish the pus." — 

 " But you must not depend on the certainty of this sign ; for if 

 the matter stick to the nostrils like glue, it is a bad sign, and you 

 may conclude the disease to be the glanders, though the matter 

 do swim on the top." — "When either^ the breath or matter that 

 comes out of the nostrils stinks, the disease is almost always 

 incurable." — " I have seen horses troubled with this distemper 

 without kernels, or, if there were any, they were little and move- 

 able ; and the only sign by which we could discover it to be 

 glanders was the glueness of the matter." 



DUPUY tells us that suspicion of harbouring glanders — when the 

 symptoms manifest doubt — will always rest upon a horse possessing 



* The Compleat Ilorseinan, by Sicur dc Solleysell. 



