THE n01?SE AND ITS DI^^EASES, 139 



by anytliing that weakens the constitution, or from 

 general debility. 



Symptoms. — This fatal and loathsome disease has 

 been the scourge ol this noble race of animals, to our 

 knowledge, for the last three hundred years. With 

 regard to the discharge from the nostrils, it is almost 

 transparent, and hangs about the nostrils in a peculiar 

 manner. Where a necessity exists for an immediate 

 decision relative to the disease, the following is the best 

 manner of proving it. If the matter issuing from the 

 nose in these deceptive cases, arise from cold, if dropped 

 into water, soon rises to the surface, and swims — but if 

 the matter from a glandered horse be so dropped into 

 water, it sinks. There is also an immoveable kernel in 

 the near gland, with ulceration up the nostrils. 



A singular character of the glanders is, that it 

 generally attacks one nostril only, and that the left one. 

 Mr. Dupary, a celebrated veterinary surgeon, and director 

 of the school of surgery at Toulouse, mentions that out 

 of 800 cases of glanders which occurred during his 

 practice, only one was affected in the right nostril. 

 Ulcers will appear up the nostrils, the horse will lose 

 his flesh, his belly will be tucked up, his coat will be 

 unthrifty, and readily come off, the appetite will be 

 impaired, the strength will fail, the ulcers up the nostrils 

 get large and numerous, and the air passages being 

 obstructed, a choking noise is heard, at every act of 

 breathing. The lungs are now diseased and filled with 

 ulceration, and at length the horse dies. 



Ciu^e. — This disease is deemed incurable, and although 

 some writers prescribe their far-famed receipts for its 

 cure ; it is only an imposition on the credulous, without 

 any prospect of success. 



When it is clearly proved that a horse is glandered, 

 he should be immediately destroyed, and his manger, 

 and every other part of tlie stable well washed with a 

 strong solution of soda and water, and afterwards with 

 chloride lime, and the iron- work painted. 



