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lasted three years, but eventually disappeared. In these 

 instances, however, our principal reliance was upon the 

 nature of the discharge, which presented distinguishing 

 characteristics, that, attended to, proved tolerable guides. 

 The matter of glanders is tenacious and sticky, like glue ; 

 semi-transparent, and hangs about the rim of the nostrils 

 in a peculiar manner ; but more particularly it is continu- 

 ally flowing : whereas in that state resulting from catarrh 

 there is not a regular discharge, but the flow appears now 

 and then, as when the horse coughs, or when after trotting 

 he clears himself by snorting, or when he stoops the head 

 to feed ofl' the earth ; at which times a large quantity fre- 

 quently comes away, and then perhaps no more appears for 

 some hours after. And though the matter of glanders 

 may flow some weeks even, without apparent ulceration, 

 yet in general cases there will occur a more early appear- 

 ance of chancres, and commonly a swelling and fixture of 

 the lymphatic gland also ; to all these considerations should 

 be added, an examination of the general health of the horse, 

 and particularly of the state of his coat or hair, which we 

 have always observed unthrifty and disposed to fall off in 

 confirmed glanders. 



The practitioner need hardly be cautioned on the score 

 of the common tricks practised in horse fairs and markets 

 to conceal the appearance of glanders. It is common with 

 the lowest orders of the salesmen to gallop a glandered 

 horse in some private situation, which forces him by accele- 

 rated respiration and cough to throw off the collected secre- 

 tion immediately formed : some powerful astringent, as 

 alum, vitriol, &c. is then blown up the nostrils, or in some 

 cases the discharge is temporarily stopped by a plug or 

 pledget of tow, cloth, &c. &c. thrust up the nose. But in 

 all these cases the enlarged lymphatics still remain, and 

 the coat will in all probability come off on handling ; 

 but particularly there is a constant uneasiness in the manner 

 of the horse, for he attempts to cough or sneeze to rid 

 himself of the plug. 



TJie Treatment of Glanders. — The philosopher's stone 

 was scarcely sought for more earnestly by the ancients, than 

 a cure for glanders by recent veterinarians. The great 

 reward held out has stimulated many practitioners into 



