4^ Horses and Horsemastership. 



among aDimals that have been improperl)^ cared ; but 

 so contagious is it that even healthy horses may become 

 infected by drinking from the same vessel as a glandered 

 animal, or by any of the numerous other ways in which 

 disease is spread. It is, moreover, communicable to 

 man, so that attendants upon horses suffering from the 

 disease should exercise the utmost care. 



The symptoms of glanders are so marked that very 

 little experience is necessary to enable even an amateur 

 to diagTiose a case. It will be noticed that one of the 

 nostrils, usually the left, is discharging a watery fluid, 

 which changes to a gluev consistency, and adheres to 

 the nostrils. This discharge is not necessarily confined 

 to one nostril, although it is most frequently so. The 

 submaxillary gland on the same side will be found to 

 be swollen, and a hard, painless lump about the size of 

 a walnut can be plainly felt in the centre of the gland 

 (i.e., between the branches of the lower jaw. Tlie 

 lining membrane of the nose assumes a dull purple 

 colour, and most probably ulcers will be visible, though 

 it occasionally happens that the sores are too high up 

 the nasal cavity to be seen. But their presence can 

 easily be determined by passing a twig, with some cotton 

 wool wound round the tip, up the nostril. The wool, 

 when withdrawn, will be found covered with a blood- 

 stained gleet. 



