VARIRTIES 01' GLANDERS. 189 



enliri'ly ceasing, cither by night or da}', at rest or in motion;" 

 accompanied by " an indurated submaxillary gland, enlarged only 

 to the size of a pea or horsebean ; frequently loose, and not ad- 

 herent to the jaw-bone, and, therefore, presenting no characteristic 

 symptom of the disease more than we usually meet with in inci- 

 pient catarrh." In support of the paper, Mr. Turner adduced the 

 following instructive 



Case of Insidious Glanders. 



" A few years ago, a repectable farmer solicited my opinion respecting a 

 hackney mare which he had had some time in full work; telling me that 

 lie did not know there was any thing amiss with her, but wished her to 

 be examined. She was about seven or eight years old, in excellent con- 

 dition, and had a good coat. The farmer directed my especial attention to 

 the head, saying that there had been a discharge from the off-nostril for a 

 considerable time, but in so slight a degree as scarcely to be considered 

 worthy of notice, especially as the mare was not jugged^. There was, how- 

 ever, an enlargement of the gland about the size of a tick-bean, and quite 

 loose. If my attention had not been particularly directed to it, I might 

 have passed it over as not of much importance. I found that the farmer 

 had had the mare seven or eight months; that the discharge had existed 

 daring the whole time; and that he had kept her avvay from the other farm- 

 ing horses. The farmer wished for a decided opinion respecting her. I re- 

 plied, that the mere circumstance of the discharge having existed for so long 

 a time, led me to suspect she would never be perfectly sound, and that 

 the farmer would not be justified in sending her into the market. She was 

 immediately taken to a slaughter-house in the neighbourhood. While arrange- 

 ments were making with the collar-maker, a farrier interfered, and purchased 

 her for three pounds ; and triumphantly rode her up the town, and declared, 

 in no measured terms, that I had committed a grand blunder, and that he 

 should make " a complete cure of her." 



" Five or six weeks afterwards I was told that the farrier had nearly "cured" 

 the condemned mare. I replied, that, if he had only nearly cured her, I un- 

 derstood the state in which she was. A month after this, I was examining 

 the post-horses at an inn near London, when I was told that, by some collu- 

 sion between the farrier and the ostler, she had been sold into their stables, 

 and was in excellent condition. On closely examining these post-horses, 

 I detected two cases of glanders, and two of farcy without glanders ; and this 

 in a stable that had been occupied by post-horses for many a year^ without a 

 single case of farcy or glanders. On discovering this, I ordered the black 



* A cant term for enlarged submaxillary glands. 



