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not to be controverted that the horse is glandered. ISTotwith- 

 standing this, however, there are cases in which the glands 

 are neither adherent nor much enlarged, and yet there is a 

 constant discharge from one or both nostrils. The veter- 

 inary surgeon would have little hesitation in pronouncing 

 them to be cases of glanders. He will trast to the adhesion', 

 of the gland, but he will not be misled by its looseness, nor 

 even by its absence altogether. 



" Glanders have been confounded with strangles, and by 

 those who ought to have known better. Strangles are pe- 

 culiar to young horses. The early stage resembles cold, with 

 some degree of fever and sore throat — generally with dis- 

 tressing cough, or, at least, frequent wheezing; and when 

 the enlargement appears beneath the jaw, it is not a single 

 small gland, but a swelling of the whole of the substance be- 

 tween the jaws, growing harder toward the center, and, after 

 awhile, appearing to contain a fluid, and breaking. In stran- 

 gles the membrane of the nose will be intense!}^ red, and the 

 discharge from the nose profuse and purulent, or mixed with 

 matter almost from the first. When the tumor has burst, 

 the fever will abate, and the horse will speedily get well. 



" Should the discharge from the nose continue, as it -some- 

 times does, for a considerable time after the horse has recov- 

 ered from strangles, there is no cause for fear. Simple 

 strangles need never degenerate into glanders. Good keep- 

 ing, and small doses of tonio medicines, will gradually perfect, 

 the cure. 



"Glanders have been confounded with catarrh, or cold; bu^^ 

 the distinction between them is plain enough. Fever, loss ' 

 of appetite, and sore throat accompanying cold — the quidding 

 of the food and gulping of the water are sufficient indica- 

 tions of the latter of these; the discharge from the nose is 

 profuse, and, perhaps, purulent; the glands under the jaw, if 

 swelled, are movable ; there is a thickening around them, and A 

 they are tender and hot. With proper treatment, the fever 

 abates, the cough disappears, the swellings under the throat 

 subside, and the discharge from the nose gradually ceases; 



