S5^ C)N GLANDERS. 



bufinefs a long time, with an abfccfs in the 

 lungs, before the matter, which pafTes up the 

 windpipe, is capable of corrupting the mem- 

 branes. The rattling noife in the nollrils, oc- 

 cafioned by the tumid flate of the glands, and 

 the prodigious quantity of matter which flows 

 off, diltinguilh the prefent dillemper from the 

 glanders." 



St. Bel. — The glanders, an obllruftion or 

 erofion of the lymphatic du6ls and fluids, in 

 animals which do not cleave the hoof, a difeafe 

 hitherto incurable. 



" Young horfes moft liable to the difeafe, fat 

 horfes more than lean ones, thofe at reft more 

 than working ones, leaft of all thofe running 

 abroad. 



" I'he peculiar fymptoms of the difeafe are, 

 that the virus in moil cafes does not produce 

 any fenfible alteration in the animal ceconomy ; 

 the horfe has no fever, dullnefs, or diftafte to 

 food, but the animal funclions are all regular. 

 The ob{tru6lion of the lympliatic glands. The 

 hardnefs and infenfibility of the glands, in this 

 difeafe, juftifies the fuppofition, that the virus 

 contains fome noxious and aftive effluvia which 

 condenfe the humours* 



" When the difcharsre is only from one noftril, 

 the gland on that fide alone is obftru61ed. If 

 on compreiling the glands (or kernels) between 

 the lingers, an elaflic repulfion is felt from the 



centre 



