Plugging Glandered Horses. 201 



trickery, tliey too frequently use means to deceive 

 the purchaser. It is a well-known fact that if 

 a glandered horse is galloped hard, the increased 

 action of the lungs in breathing will thoroughly 

 drive the mucous substance out of the nostrils, 

 and to make it continue dry for a time they blow 

 up the diseased nostril (the left) powdered alum, 

 or white vitriol ; but a little attention will enable 

 any one to see that the animal is in pain, and 

 will make ineffectual attempts to sneeze. The 

 foetid smell, so different from any other discharge, 

 will convince even the inexperienced person that 

 the horse is glandered. 



A favourite trick of the horse-dealer is to 

 gallop the horse in the morning before bringing 

 it to the fair, blow vitriol up its nostril, and then 

 force a pledget of cotton wool a considerable way 

 up its nostril ; they will try to destroy the foetid 

 smell by syringing a solution of carbolic acid up 

 the right nostril. In buying a horse at a fair 

 always lay hold of its nostril and pinch both to- 

 gether so as to stop the horse's breath, hold it 

 so for a few seconds, then let go your hold and 

 the horse will blow its nose violently ; if it has 

 been "plugged" the horse will blow the pledget 

 out, and if it does so it is glandered without a 

 doubt. 



FAECY. 



This disease is nearly allied to glanders ; some 

 have suposed it to be a modification of that 

 malady. This, however, is a great mistake, for 

 they are essentially different, as I will endeavour 



