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within the nostrils, are symptoms which occur in 

 the above diseases, as well as in glanders. 



Although the disease is here divided into the 

 6rst and second stages, it is not essential that in 

 each case the former should precede the latter, 

 for sometimes the acute only is present, and the 

 horse speedily dies, if not destroyed. In other 

 instances, the acute stage may be succeeded by 

 the sub-acute. It may, however, be observed, 

 that the first stage never ends in death, but 

 it is always in the second stage that the disease 

 proves fatal. Besides these stages, glanders 

 sometimes assumes a still more insidious appear- 

 ance, in which the discharge is so slight, and the 

 enlarged gland so trivial, as not only to deceive the 

 ignorant, but often to mislead the well-instructed 

 practitioner. The discharge is thin, and appears 

 no more than a slight increase of the natural 

 discharge, and the sub-maxillary swelling is no 

 larger than a bean, though hard and indurated. 

 Such cases as these have proved of irreparable 

 injury to many horse proprietors, from the symp- 

 toms not being sufficiently urgent to excite 

 alarm ; and when a veterinary surgeon has given 

 his opinion that such case was one of glanders, 

 there have not been wanting plenty of farriers 

 and others who have altogether contemned such 

 an opinion, and, for a time at least, have exulted 

 over their own superior sagacity. Mr. James 

 Turner relates a striking instance of this, in 

 which his advice was disregarded, and a horse, 

 with these insidious appearances, was allowed to 



