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want of due caution wlienever a suspicion of it 

 is entertained, the most disastrous consequences 

 may result. Although glanders has been known 

 to mankind for upwards of 1800 years, and the 

 symptoms well described, yet it is lamentable to 

 state that up to the present hour no cure has 

 been found for it. !No disease to which the horse 

 is subject has had more experiments made with 

 it, and all have proved equally unsatisfactory, 

 and although many cases are reported of horses 

 having been cured of glanders, yet when the 

 same treatment adopted has been applied to an 

 undoubted case of glanders it has always turned 

 out a disappointment. Many men have also lost 

 their lives by becoming inoculated with the 

 foetid pus from the nostril, and fearful indeed is 

 the death of a man from this loathsome disease. 

 Medical remedies have alleviated the severity of 

 this disease for a time, and arrested its progress, 

 but it is certain to return and prove fatal at last, 

 and it is doubtful if a case of true glanders was 

 ever cured. There are various diseases which 

 in their early stages have much the same appear- 

 ance as glanders, and therefore it is necessary to 

 watch them narrowly, as of course perfect recovery 

 may follow. The very first symptoms of glanders 

 is a constant discharge from the left nostril of 

 mucus, clearer and of a lighter colour than in 

 common cold or catarrh, and more glutinous in 

 its substance. If rubbed between the finger and 

 thumb it has a sticky feeling. This discharge also 

 differs from common cold by being continuous, 

 whereas in the latter it is only discharged at 



