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there could not have been less than ten thousand of these 

 tumors in the animal from which this specimen was taken. 

 They will frequently be found about the tail of gray hurses, 

 not being found in horses of any other color. 



GLANDERS. 



This fatal and much dreaded disease has baffled the efforts 

 of veterinary surgeons in all ages of the world, ami si ill 

 continues so to do. It is decidedly contagious ; yet as dif- 

 ferent diseases are often confounded with it, which may be 

 detected by the competent practitioner, no animal should be 

 condemned until the symptoms peculiar to glanders, which 

 cannot well be mistaken if the disease is fully developed, have 

 manifested themselves. The suspected animal should be re- 

 moved and kept from all possible contact with any others. 

 The author has deposited in the museum of the Yeteriuary 

 College of Philadelphia the heads of a number of horses that 

 were killed as glandered animals, and yet not one of them 

 was so ; the suspicious symptoms in each case arising from 

 carious teeth. Animals afflicted with ozena have also fre- 

 quently been killed as glandered ; and in one case which re- 

 cently came under the author's notice, where the animal was 

 killed as glandered, the cause of all the difficulty was the 

 filling up of the frontal sinuses by bony deposits. 



It is necessary for the attendant to use the utmost caution 

 when about a glandered horse, as the disease is freely com- 

 municated from the animal to man by inoculation. Of some 

 sixty-seven cases reported in the Veterinarian of London as 

 occurriDg in man, but three recovered, notwithstanding the 



