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acute glanders by inoculation with the matter of farcy : we do not 

 always succeed, it is true, but one case proves as nuich as a 

 thousand." 



*' Chronic Glanders commonly affects but one side of the 

 head : if, therefore, a discharge makes its appearance from one 

 nostril alone, that of itself is strong presumptive evidence of the 

 presence of this disease. This partial flux cannot come from the 

 lungs, for, if it did, the other nostril would discharge too* : it must 

 have its issue from some part anterior to the larynx ; consequently 

 it can have no other source but the membrane of the nose or that 

 portion of it lining the sinuses. Should it come from the nose, 

 the membrane, most likely, will have a redder aspect upon that 

 side of the septum than upon the opposite, or there may be a 

 disposition to, or actual ulceration. If the nasal discharge is con- 

 siderable, and, at the same time, the animal to all appearance 

 continues in the enjoyment of good constitutional health, such cir- 

 cumstances should serve to strengthen your suspicions. People 

 cannot conceive how it is a horse can have glanders so long as he 

 eats and drinks, and does his work like one in perfect health ; this 

 very fact, however, I repeat, is corroborative of an unfavourable 

 prognosis. Another circumstance to be attended to is, that the 

 nasal flux has little or no fetor ; offensiveness of breath is pretty 

 certain evidence that glanders is not present : not but what pneu- 

 monia and glanders may exist in the same subject, but, fetid breath 

 commonly proceeding from the lungs, and this chronic discharge 

 coming from the sinuses of the head, the one disease is not in any 

 way necessarily connected with the other. In glanders, the nostrils 

 are contracted and gummed with inspissated discharge ; but the 

 flux is not offensive, or, at least, to the same degree as pulmonary 

 fetor is. Again ; in glanders, generally speaking, there is, on the 

 same side from which the discharge comes, a defined swelling of the 

 submaxillary lymphatic glands, which is attached closely and im- 

 moveably to the side of the jaw : if it is a tumour of considerable 

 size, one that is diff'used and extends inwardly, or one that is very 

 moveable under the fingers, most likely it is not lymphatic, and 

 * See ni}' remark concerning this at page 179. 



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