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sometimes grows in it, and by gradually increas- 

 ing blocks it up. It is termed a Polypus, in 

 Surgery, and constitutes unsoundness : as I need 

 scarcely add, so does Glanders. 



Horses, in travelling to a fair, or from the 

 country to a dealer's stables in town, are very 

 apt to catch cold on the way, and have discharge 

 from the nose and soreness of throat. This the 

 purchaser should guard against, for such cases 

 frequently end very unfavourably ; and indeed 

 if the horse were treated as if he were well, he 

 might probably take inflamed lungs and die. 

 Such things are of frequent occurrence, and cir- 

 cumspection is therefore requisite. A thin 

 watery discharge from the nose, and that small 

 in quantity, is a symptom of this cold ; and upon 

 pressing the throat a little, the animal winces, 

 evidently from pain : many horses, however, are 

 purchased with colds, and no ill consequences 

 ensue ; but if the purchaser chooses to run the 

 risk, he should not by any means use the horse 

 as if he were perfectly well. A few days' rest 

 in a well ventilated stable, mash diet, and some 

 liquid blister to the throat, will, in a great many 

 cases entirely remove a cold ; while exertion, 

 and re-exposure to the causes that first produced 



