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or, if it remains, it is usually very different from that which 

 characterizes glanders. 



" In glanders there is seldom cough of any consequence, and, 

 generally, no cough at all. A running from the nose, small 

 in quantity, and, from the smallness of its quantity, drying 

 about the edges of the nostrils, and presenting some appear- 

 ance of stickiness, will, in a few cases, remain after catarrh, 

 and especially after the influenza of spring ; and these have 

 gradually assumed the character of glanders, and more par- 

 ticularly when they have been accompanied by enlarged 

 glanders and ulceration in the nose. Here the aid of a judi- 

 cious veterinary surgeon is indispensable, and he will some- 

 times experience considerable difficulty in deciding the case. 

 One circumstance will principally guide him. Xo disease 

 will run on to glanders which has not, to a considerable and 

 palpable degree, impaired and broken down the constitution, 

 and every disease that does this will run on to glanders.^ He 

 will look then to the general state and condition of the 

 horse, as well as to the situation of the glands, the nature of 

 the discharge, and the character of the ulceration. ' 



"If, after all, he is in doubt, an experiment may be resorted 

 to, which wears, indeed, the appearance of cruelty, and which 

 only the safety of a valuable animal or of a whole team can 

 justify. He will inoculate an ass, or a horse already con- 

 demned to the hounds, with the matter discharged from the 

 nose. If the horse is glandered, the symptoms of glanders, 

 or farcy, will appear in the inoculated animal in the course 

 of a few days. 



" The post-mortem examination of the horse will remove every 

 doubt as to the character of the disease. The nostril is gen- 

 erally more or less blanched with spots or lines of inflamma- 

 tion, of considerable intensity. Ulceration is almost invari- 

 ably found, and of a chancrous character, on the septum, and 

 also on the sethmoid and turbinated bones. The ulcers evi- 

 dently follow the course of the absorbents, sometimes almost 



*We regard this as certainly an over-statement. 



