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a very short time studded with tuhercles, a test 

 that the lungs have become affected ; the breath- 

 ing will be difficult, and a stifled grating noise 

 accompanies it, which is a certain prelude to 

 death. A common catarrh has often been mis- 

 taken for glanders, but a little attention will 

 soon enable any one to perceive the distinction 

 between the two diseases. Catarrh is usually 

 accompanied with fever, sore throat, general 

 congh, loss of appetite, and a discharge from 

 both nostrils, and in most cases very copious, 

 sometimes purulent ; the glands are generally 

 swollen on both sides of the throat, and are 

 moveable and hot to the touch. The proper 

 means being adopted, all the symptoms are abated. 

 Strangles have also been mistaken for glanders, 

 and usually affect young horses only. At first 

 they resemble a common cold with a severe cough 

 and wheezing, accompanied with considerable 

 thickening and swelling between the jawbones, 

 the swelling becoming harder towards the middle, 

 a fluid can be felt in the centre, which ultimately 

 breaks, and a discharge flows from it. The 

 mucous-membrane of the nostrils is of a very red 

 colour, and an ample discharge continues, which 

 is mixed with pus from nearl}^ the commence- 

 ment. The remote cause of glanders has hither- 

 to baffled all the members of the veterinary art, 

 its true history being still unknown, and the un- 

 satisfactory theories of medical authors throwing 

 no light on it. All that can be gained by the 

 perusal of numerous works upon this disease by 

 past and present authors is that the disease is 



