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Sector may be useful. Some press their fingers 

 up the nostril and feel for the ulcers. A chronic 

 discharge from one or both nostrils may not be a 

 case of glanders, as that can be produced either 

 from nasal gleet or a diseased tooth, and many 

 valuable animals have been destroyed, when upon 

 examination after death a decayed tooth has been 

 found to be the cause. What we have to look for 

 in a case of glanders is the glazy, sticky discharge 

 from one nostril, usually ulcers in the membrane 

 of the nose, and hard swellings of the lymphatic 

 gland under the jaw, and usually adhering to the 

 side of the lower jaw, and the absence of any other 

 cause for the discharge. In nasal gleet the ani- 

 mal should be destroyed in case it should turn into 

 glanders. The animal is usually unthrifty, the 

 coat is rough and dirty, and although the animal 

 may eat well, it does not keep in good flesh. I 

 have seen some few cases in which the animal was 

 to all appearance healthy, with a fine, sleek skin. 

 Acute Glanders. — This is usually caused either 

 by inoculation with glandular matter from a 

 chronic case by some of the matter becoming ab- 

 sorbed into the blood, or a glandered horse may 

 Veceive a wound and some of its own matter may 

 get into it and cause acute glanders. The first 

 symptoms of acute glanders are shivering fits, in- 

 dicating great fever; these fits are often persist- 

 ent, the pulse is increased seventy to eighty beats 

 per minute, the breathing is fast, and the tempera- 

 ture rises rapidly from one hundred and six to one 

 hundred and seven; the animal is in great distress, 



