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which have liveried glandered horses have been thoroughly 

 cleansed, aired and whitewashed ; yet a new and healthy set 

 of horses being placed in the stalls, one or more of them 

 would be down with the glanders in a few weeks. 



Symptoms. — Glanders occurs in two forms, the acute and 

 the chronic. 



Acute glanders appears suddenly by prolonged chills and 

 shiverings. As they pass off a high fever sets in, the tem- 

 perature running up to 106 or 107 degrees. The pulse is 

 feeble and rapid, the breathing quick, and the appetite fails. 

 The eyes are weak and watery, and the glands under thejaw 

 are swollen. On examining the nostrils, their lining mem- 

 brane is found to be swollen and of a dark coppery or red 

 color, with patches of ragged ulceration here and there, from 

 which drips a bloody and watery discharge. The swollen 

 glands of the face and neck soon break and form abscesses 

 with a similar sanious pus coming from them. The animal 

 rapidly weakens, the breathing becomes obstructed, the lungs 

 become inflamed, and death ends the scene. 



Chronic glanders presents this same history in a much 

 slower and apparently milder, but in reality none the less fatal 

 form. The general health may seem to be scarcely affected. 

 There will be a discharge, often from one nostril, usually the 

 near one, of a thin, sticky fluid, which has not a very un- 

 pleasant odor, sometimes no odor at all, and which dries and 

 accumulates around the nasal opening. On feeling beneath 

 thejaw, the swollen glands will be felt like a hard knot, 

 which may, however, disappear for a time to return again. 

 The membrane of the nostril will prove to have a tawny, 

 coppery or dull leaden hue. The eye of the affected side will 

 be weak and watery. 



Usually the symptoms are more decided than this. The 

 horse is off" his feed, his coat is unhealthy, he has a slight 

 cough, and sweats on slight exertion. There is a discharge 



