326 / v^: GLANDERS. 



utmost exertions of the ablest physicians that could be pro 

 cured. 



The most common cause of this disease is the impure air of 

 close, ill-ventilated, and filthy stables, which acts injuriously 

 upon the organs of respiration, destroys the constitution, de- 

 bilitates the system, and renders it susceptible to the attacks 

 of disease. Neglected catarrh, also, sometimes terminates in 

 glanders ; hard work and bad provender, together with sudden 

 changes from exposure to cold and wet weather to hot stables, 

 are likewise reckoned among the causes. 



The symptoms are, discharges from one or both nostrils, of 

 . a glossy, thick, gluey nature, frequently sticking about the 

 nostrils in considerable masses. This is a pecnliarity which 

 other discharges do not possess. This discharge is not always 

 copious, as is generally supposed. The Schneiderian membrane 

 of the nose changes to a dusky, or dirty yellow, or leaden 

 hue ; ulcers appear upon the membrane ; a peculiar raising 

 of the nasal bones will be observed, which the author has 

 never noticed in any other disease ; the discharge is sometimes 

 mixed with blood, and is often fetid ; and one or both of the 

 submaxillary glands are swollen and adhere to the jaw bone. 

 Too much reliance, however, should not be placed upon thig 

 swelling, as it frequently accompanies other diseases ; but the 

 character of the discharge, and the raising of the nasal bones 

 are peculiarities not easily mistaken when the disease is de- 

 veloped. As all the other symptoms will be found accom- 

 panying other diseases, too much care cannot be exercised in 

 deciding upon a case of this disease previous to a full develop- 

 ment of the symptoms. 



All treatment thus far has proven a failure. 



