2^2 ON GLANDERS. 



charge, but was always in a weak and feeble 

 ftate, and died tabid and wafted away, at grafs, 

 in about a twelvemonth. In 1788 I took a 

 well-fliaped mare, very valuable could (he 

 have been made found, which was affefted 

 with what Markham would have ftyled " a 

 " high running glanders." In faft, ftie dif- 

 charged from both noftrils a copious gleet of 

 the very worft colour and fcent, the kernels 

 under her jaws were hard and infenfible, her 

 hair came off with the flighteft pull, ftie had 

 the real he6tic purulent fever, accompanied 

 with the fymptomatic " mourning of the 

 " chine," or the ufual tabid appearance, more 

 particularly in the loin. Her eyes were watery 

 and gummy, fometimes her legs fwelled, fub- 

 je61 to faint fweats on the leaft exercife, appe- 

 tite moderate, dung of a loofe rotten appear- 

 ance, coat fine, and laid well. I continued her 

 llriftly in the courfe recommended by Bracken, 

 feven weeks, with alternate amendment and re- 

 lapfe, towards the latter part of the time, with 

 fome fmall apparent improvement ; but my 

 man getting weary of fo difguftmg an attend- 

 ance, and forefeeing that a cure muft be at , 

 any rate very diftant, I fent her to Smith- 

 field and fold her. I muft remark here, that 

 relying on the fingular opinion of Bracken, 1 

 took no precautions whatever with thefe glan- 

 dered horfes, except in feeding them at Ibme 



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