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Huzard, they divide the disease into three stages or degrees. 

 " In the first there is a discharge from one nostril only, of a 

 whitish humour, which is inconsiderable, except when the horse 

 has been exercised for some time. There is an increased red- 

 ness of the membrane within the nostrils. The swellino- of the 

 glands under the jaw is on the same side as the affected nostril. 

 There is a healthy appearance of the horse's coat, and he seems 

 in" ijood health and condition. The urine is crude and trans- 

 parent. 



" The symptoms of glanders arising from communication Avith 

 a glandered hoi^se are diiferent from those of glanders produced 

 by bad provender, excessive exertion, &c. In the former the 

 discharge is from one nostril only, or much more from one than 

 from the other; and there is no cough or other symptom of 

 catarrh or cold, or any other disorder. In the latter, on the 

 contrary, there is cough, either dry or moist ; and it is preceded 

 by loss of appetite, or falling off in appetite, and depression of 

 spirits. 



" The symptoms of the second degree are the altered appear- 



horse was in whilst under my care. Another case occurred within a few 

 months of the other, in which the symptoms were not so strongly marked, 

 and therefore more insidious. A young carriage-horse, belonging to a noble- 

 man now deceased, was ill with a severe catarrh in the early jiart of 1839, and 

 was for some time under the care of a veterinary surgeon of Eath. He got 

 considerably better, but the discharge from the nostril continued. A few 

 months afterwards the establishment coming, according to custom, into my 

 neighbourhood, I saw the horse, and recommended that he should, by all 

 means, be separated from the other horses, which was accordingly done, and 

 he was placed under my care. The symptoms, at this time, were a rather 

 considerable discharge of white healthy-looking matter from the near nostril, 

 and enlargement of the corresponding sub-maxillary gland, which felt hard, 

 and was about the size of an egg; no ulceration could be perceived, and the 

 animal looked in other respects healthy and well. The horse was valuable, 

 having recently cost 70/. The treatment was pursued for several weeks, and 

 consisted of blisters and setons to the throat and glands, and vegetable and 

 mineral tonics internally. Under this treatment the horse got considerably 

 better ; the swelling very much diminished, as well as the nasal discharge. 

 After five or six weeks, however, I felt no hesitation in pronouncing the case 

 to be one of glanders, but that I had no doubt the symptoms might still be 

 amended. Soon after this the owner made a present of the horse to a 

 relative (with all his faults), and I heard nothing more of the case for two 

 months, when I was told that the horse was entirely well, and a neighbouring 

 farrier (\'. hose only treatment of the case I afterwards found consisted in 

 applying a blister to the gland) industriously reported that he had cured the 

 disease that had baffled me, but that it was never one of glanders. The 

 owner, not quite satisfied with the case, consulted JNIr. Field, and by his 

 desire the horse was sent to town by railroad. The discharge from the 

 nostrils was very slight, but sutficient to enable INIr. Field to inoculate 

 with it a donkey, which shortly afterwards became glandered. The horse 

 was now ordered to be destroyed, and, being examined by Mr. Field, the evi- 

 dence of the disease was decisive, and the lungs were found in a tuberculatcd 

 state. — Ed. 



