4% THE GLANDERS, 



Symptoms of the Glanders. 



thereto proved incurable ; but we are confident it 

 might at all times, with proper care and manage- 

 ment, be prevented, if attended to in time. It is 

 highly contagious; and when any thing of this 

 kind happens in a stable of horses, the diseased 

 should be removed to fresh apartments as soon 

 as possible. 



The symptoms accompanying this disorder 

 are, a discharge of matter from the nostrils, 

 which is of a yellow or greenish colour, and 

 sometimes streaked or tinged with blood ; and if 

 of long continuance, the virus begins to corrode 

 and act upon one or both of the nostrils until the 

 bone becomes affected, and begins to decay : in 

 this case the matter discharged becomes very of- 

 fensive, and the disease may be deemed incura- 

 ble. It is always attended with a hard swelling of , 

 the glands, or kernels under the jaws. The 

 glanders makes its appearance with a slight in- 

 flammation on the pituitory membrane which 

 lines the partition alongthe inside of the nose, and 



