158 IIORSK >VARUANTY. 



buyer finds liis purchnso ruiiiiiiip: at tlio nose -witli 

 tlmt peouliiir discliargo ^\llic•ll a faiTier tolls liiin is 

 glanders, ho should take steps to rescind the bar- 

 gain and get liis money hack. A person with a 

 glandercd horse should not attempt to re-sell it ; 

 ■when the animal is pronounced to have this disease 

 it must be destroyed, and the buyer can recover 

 the full price, and, possibly, damages also from the 

 seller, if it can be proved that the latter knew, or 

 ought to have known, the horse he was selling had 

 this fatal complaint. 



stroiiRics Straxgi-es are a disease common to all horses, 

 an^orecsr especially young animals, and is often mistaken 

 for glanders. To the inexpert the symptoms are 

 the same, but more violent in strangles while they 

 lust. The horse appears to have a bad cold, its 

 head and throat swell, and after a while a copious 

 discharge takes place from the nostrils. It is 

 sometimes dillicult to get a young horse in con- 

 dition before it has had strangles, at least, in the 

 same condition as after strangles. It would ap- 

 pear as if this complaint canicd off some \iruB in 

 the system, and is a great relief to young horses. 

 A horso with strangl(>s is unsound; but it is a 

 complaint which comes on very .-^uddonly, and the 

 same circumstancos which give a horso a cough or 

 cold at, or just before, the time of .'^ale, are likely 

 enough to bring on strangles. If a piux'haser 

 thinks the animal ho has bought has strangles, he 



